# Principal Electrical Engineer

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Chantilly, Virginia
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $220,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Principal Electrical Engineer to join their team in Chantilly, VA.

The role involves full-cycle PCB design for spacecraft and associated systems, including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, and integration with the system.

Responsibilities:

- Work with a cross-functional team to design market-leading hardware products

- Drive product maturity through rapid prototyping, design verification, and qualification activities

- Apply modern space-flight hardware design standards and guidelines to create high-reliability, highly manufacturable assemblies

- Implement combinations of high-speed digital, precision analog, RF, and ultra-low power, and medium-power designs

- Lead the team in establishing internal guidelines and best practices for space flight hardware design, test, and manufacture

- Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews and mentor team members

- Perform low-level firmware development for bring-up and test

- Root cause analysis in support of production operations

Requirements:

- Currently possesses and is able to maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

- 20+ years of professional experience in hardware product development, at least 10 designing space flight hardware

- Full understanding of PCB Layout techniques to meet space flight mechanical, electrical, and manufacturing requirements

- Ability to read and interpret schematics and apply best practices

- Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, MIPI CSI-2

- Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies

- Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits

- Ability to determine work priorities based on broad direction from management

- Experience using Altium Designer or equivalent E-CAD tools

- Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with others

Preferred Qualifications:

- Understanding of MIL-STD-810 and relevant military environmental qualification standards

- Understanding of MIL-STD-461 and relevant military electromagnetic compatibility standards

- Experience designing, integrating, and flying Cubesat spacecraft

- Familiarity designing and working with cryptographic equipment and associated key material

- 3+ years of experience working in a classified environment

The salary range for this role is $220,000-$292,000 USD per year.

## Skills

### Required
- PCB design
- space flight hardware
- schematic design
- component selection
- layout
- bring-up
- test
- debug
- integration
- firmware development
- root cause analysis
- Altium Designer
- Ethernet
- CAN
- I2C
- SPI
- PCIe
- MIPI CSI-2
- MCU
- CPU
- FPGA

### Nice to have
- MIL-STD-810
- MIL-STD-461
- Cubesat spacecraft
- cryptographic equipment

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