Senior System Architect, Space Electronics

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

As a Senior System Architect on the Anduril Imaging team, you will own the electronics architecture for space-bound imaging payloads and drive their design from concept through flight.

Responsibilities

• Own the electrical architecture for imaging payloads, partitioning the system, defining power, sensor, data, and interface electronics, and driving the architectural tradeoffs that enable a sub-12-month path to orbit.
• Lead the design, layout, bring-up, and qualification of PCBAs spanning analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics for EO/IR sensor systems.
• Translate sensor and system performance models into electrical requirements, and push back on requirements that don't earn their place on the critical path.
• Drive rapid design-build-test cycles: prototype quickly, characterize on the bench, iterate on real hardware, and converge on flight-ready designs without unnecessary cycles.
• Design for the space environment and own the analysis and testing that proves it.
• Bake in design for manufacturability and assembly from the first schematic so designs scale cleanly toward low-rate production as programs mature.
• Lead board bring-up, integration, and troubleshooting in the lab and during environmental and integration testing.
• Partner closely with firmware, optics, mechanical, systems, and program teams to drive integration and close out anomalies fast.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to other electrical engineers, and serve as a design-review and decision-making anchor for the electronics scope.
• Document architectures, designs, analyses, and test results to a standard that supports flight readiness and program reviews.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering spanning system-level architecture, electronics design, and hands-on test, with a track record of owning designs end to end.
• A degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Demonstrated ownership of electronics architecture for a complex electromechanical or sensor system, including the tradeoff decisions that shaped it.
• Strong analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics design experience, with deep schematic capture and PCB layout proficiency.
• Proven ability to take hardware from architecture through bring-up, integration, and qualification , including hands-on debug in the lab.
• Experience delivering hardware on aggressive timelines and working in rapid, iterative design cycles.
• Excellent engineering judgment, problem-solving, and the ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information under schedule pressure.
• Ability to collaborate effectively across a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.