Electrical Engineering Technical Lead

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Atlanta, GA · Tactical Recon & Strike

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking an Electrical Engineering Technical Lead to manage end-to-end embedded control electronic systems development for UAVs and related equipment. The role involves leading a team of electrical engineers, establishing design, integration, testing, and validation processes, and overseeing PCB/LRU development. Responsibilities include technical guidance, resource management, performance evaluation, and ensuring product reliability in harsh environments. The role requires expertise in analog and digital electronics, standard interfaces, MCUs/CPUs/FPGAs, and electronic design automation tools, with a focus on high-reliability, resilient, and fault-tolerant flight-critical systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead avionics system development from concept through production, ensuring seamless integration, reliability, and performance across Anduril's air systems.
  2. Provide technical guidance and manage a team of Electrical Engineers, driving technical execution and professional growth within the Tactical Recon & Strike Electrical Engineering team.
  3. Assign Electrical Engineers to projects and reconcile resource conflicts. Identify new resource requirements, recruit, interview & hire new employees.
  4. Evaluate staff performance, communicate areas for improvement for employees, and provide recommendations for compensation & promotions.
  5. Oversee full-cycle PCB and Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) development, guiding requirements derivation, schematic design, component selection, layout, board bring-up, and system integration, testing, and debugging.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, or equivalent
  • 7+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex embedded systems and products on UAV systems or similar industries.
  • Proven leadership or management experience leading highly technical teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
  • Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, Analog circuits, etc.
  • Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
  • Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, debuggers, current-probes, and automation of tests
  • Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral)
  • Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation design tools
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with C
  • Familiarity with software development processes and tools such as git, GitHub, JIRA, etc.
  • Experience with developing for a safety-critical environment

What the JD emphasized

  • end-to-end embedded control electronic systems
  • high-reliability, resiliency, redundancy, and fault tolerance
  • flight-critical embedded control electronic systems
  • complex embedded systems and products on UAV systems