Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Electro-Mechanical (PCB design + Motors/Actuation)

Anduril is seeking a Senior Mechatronics Engineer to join the team at our Costa Mesa HQ. Here you will work on core product development for complex systems, including but not limited to optical systems, batteries, mechanisms, control systems, and sensors. The role requires high ownership and frequent collaboration with other core disciplines.

The ideal candidate would be practical, hands-on and a self starter. High growth potential is possible as well as additional leadership opportunities.

- Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts in a wide range of fields

- Identify partners in industry to engage with, and manage early vendor relationships

- Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis of blue-sky engineering problems

- Manage internal and external market research and comparisons

- Design, implementation, and test of complex electro-mechanical systems

- High level system ownership with large levels of professional autonomy

- 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

- Use first principles physics as a basis for every decision

- Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

- Demonstrated leadership skills (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

- 5+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting

- Experience in PCB design and any ECAD (Altium, KiCAD, etc)

- Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing)

- Experience with any: controls/actuation, robotics, and or motor/servo drive systems (BLDC/brushed motor controller design and servo control systems)

- Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion and system integration

- Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and layouts.

- High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles

- 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

- Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc) from schematic to bringup

- 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 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 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)