Anduril
Senior Hardware Engineer - Mission Compute, Thunder
$147K–$196K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Own end-to-end hardware development for Thunder’s avionics, including PCB design, bring-up, validation, integration, and support for field operations.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, debug, and integrate PCBs and avionics systems across lab, ground, and flight environments.
- Develop hardware bring-up and validation plans, perform low-level firmware work, and conduct root-cause analysis.
- Collaborate across hardware, software, and other vehicle subsystems; participate in design reviews.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
- 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
- Familiarity with standard interfaces and digital communication busses, and common MCU, CPU, and FPGA devices.
- U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.
Nice to have
- Experience shipping products in volume or working on safety-critical products.
- Understanding of DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160, and relevant avionics design standards for UAS.
Pay
$147,000 — $196,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, Ethernet, HDMI, Altium
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