Senior Harness Engineer, Omen

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

You will join the Omen team at our Costa Mesa HQ as a Senior Harness Engineer. Omen is Anduril's hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance, payload, and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform.

Responsibilities

• Provide engineering expertise to design, fabricate, and integrate harness systems.
• Investigate, plan, design, and develop harnesses to meet various technical requirements.
• Research, select, and procure appropriate connectors, back-shells, contacts, wire, shielding, and cable construction.
• Work closely with electrical & mechanical engineers to develop and generate harness system block diagrams and wire diagrams.
• Participate in design reviews and provide input to identify issues and drive design choices.
• Prepare harness assembly instructions and test procedures.
• Provide guidance to the electrical team in identifying electrical system requirements.
• Ensure the design meets system-level electrical requirements.
• Perform electrical trade studies for wire gauge, shielding, connector selection, and topology.
• Analyze and mitigate electrical risks.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years hands-on experience designing electrical harnessing for rugged commercial, industrial, aerospace, or military applications.
• Experience working directly with harness manufacturers.
• Familiarity with common electrical bus interfaces.
• Familiar with existing applicable harness standards as well as MIL-STD requirements.
• Able to apply knowledge of SWaP for power, network, and communications systems and designs.
• Experience reading wire block interconnect diagrams and wire diagrams.
• Organization and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with or proficient in 3D CAD wire harness routing.
• Able to read and generate formboard drawings in 2D CAD for production.
• Experience designing harnesses for high voltage applications.
• Familiarity with aviation environmental and EMI standards.

Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages.