Electrical Engineer (Actuators)

Join Anduril, a leading defense technology company, as an Electrical Engineer specializing in actuators. In this role, you will work on core product development for complex systems, including optical systems, batteries, mechanisms, control systems, and sensors. You will have high ownership of your projects and collaborate frequently with other core disciplines. The ideal candidate is practical, hands-on, and a self-starter, with high growth potential and additional leadership opportunities.

• Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts in a wide range of fields, perform trade studies and physics-based analysis of blue-sky engineering problems.
• Design, implementation, and test of complex electro-mechanical systems, lead design reviews, run analysis, visit vendors, define and execute hardware test plans.
• Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production, support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed.

• Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)
• 3+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting
• Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and layouts
• Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion and system integration
• Strong organizational skills
• Experience with any: controls/actuation, robotics, and or motor/servo drive systems (BLDC/brushed motor controller design and servo control systems)
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles
• Demonstrated leadership skills (collegiate project teams or professional settings)
• Experience in PCB design and any ECAD (Altium, KiCAD, etc)
• Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing)
• BS, MS or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience
• Experience with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485)
• Practical experience with electrical engineering tools (Oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters)
• Familiarity with wireless communication protocols
• Experience in developing a variety of electronics hardware products (UAVs, wearables, firearms, high power electric propulsion, optical systems, or other complex mechanisms)
• Experience in characterizing circuits at both schematic and board level
• Experience in bringing up device trees on embedded systems with a variety of connected sensors
• Experience with Electro-Mechanical and Electrical design concepts
• Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc) from schematic to bringup
• Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills
• Familiarity with designing for rugged environments