Anduril
Lead Electrical Engineer, Maneuver Dominance
$183K–$243K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Mar 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
About the job
Leads electrical design, integration, testing, and verification for an autonomous rotorcraft program, including PCBs, payloads, subsystems, and vehicle systems.
What you'll do
- Own full-cycle PCB design, from requirements and schematic through bring-up, testing, debugging, and system integration.
- Develop payloads, subsystem interfaces, power management, networking, interconnect diagrams, and wire harnesses.
- Support rotorcraft system integration and testing, design reviews, requirements analysis, and verification planning.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
- Knowledge of analog and digital electronics; competence with test equipment and familiarity with standard interfaces and MCU, CPU, or FPGA devices.
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance; able to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%.
Nice to have
- Experience designing electrical and power systems for autonomous rotorcraft.
- Experience with battery systems, High Voltage Power Electronics, inverters, or high power electric motors.
Pay
$183,000 — $243,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Altium, Eagle, Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB
AI focus
The role integrates advanced autonomy into an autonomous air vehicle; no specific AI development duties are stated.
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