Anduril
Staff Electrical Engineer, Advanced Targeting System
$132K–$198K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of professional electrical engineering experience.
- Education
- B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
About the job
Own the electrical architecture and guide a soldier-portable counter-UAS system from prototype through ruggedization and early production.
What you'll do
- Assess and develop the electrical architecture, subsystems, and technical roadmap.
- Lead multidisciplinary engineering and execute testing, ruggedization, qualification, and certification.
- Transition the validated design toward production with manufacturing, test, and supply-chain teams; report program status to executives.
What they ask for
- B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
- Lead multidisciplinary teams and own design of complex electromechanical systems, including prototype-to-production hardware.
- Experience across actuator dynamics and drive electronics, electro-optical/IR sensors, power and compute boards, and closed-loop control systems.
- U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.
Nice to have
- Experience with soldier-portable platforms, sensor fusion, computer vision integration, or counter-UAS/fire-control/precision-targeting systems.
- Experience with ruggedized defense designs or executive-level program communications; active Secret clearance or higher, or ability to obtain and maintain one.
Pay
$132,000 — $198,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
electro-optical/IR sensors, power and compute boards, actuator drive electronics, control systems, LIDAR, computer vision
AI focus
Integrate computer vision models and sensor-fusion algorithms at the system level for a counter-UAS platform.
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