Anduril
Electrical Engineer (Actuators)
$100K–$125K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Jul 14, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of professional electrical/design experience; also requires experience in an immersive technical project and demonstrated leadership, in collegiate or professional settings.
- Education
- BS, MS or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience.
About the job
Develops and tests electrical and electromechanical hardware, from early engineering concepts and prototypes through production, for complex systems.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, test, and analyze complex electromechanical systems; build prototypes and transition successful designs into production.
- Conduct trade studies and physics-based analysis, manage vendor relationships and market research, and lead design reviews and hardware test plans.
- Support customer hardware demonstrations and travel to test sites as needed.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of professional electrical/design experience.
- Experience with PCB design and an ECAD tool; hands-on prototyping such as soldering, board assembly, or harnessing.
- Experience with controls/actuation, robotics, or motor/servo drive systems; familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion, and system integration.
- BS, MS, or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Bare-metal microcontroller design from schematic through bring-up; rugged-environment design or embedded sensor integration.
- Experience developing complex electronics hardware products or characterizing circuits at schematic and board level.
Pay
$100,000 — $125,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
PCB design, ECAD, Altium, KiCAD, microcontrollers, power conversion, BLDC, servo control systems
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