Electrical System Test Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Costa Mesa, CA · Hardware Engineering : Electrical Engineering

Anduril Industries, a defense technology company, is seeking an Electrical System Test Engineer to develop and deliver advanced technology for military systems. The role involves creating test strategies, conducting compliance and robustness testing (e.g., MIL-STD standards), designing integration test benches, supporting requirement decomposition, driving failure analysis, devising mitigations, performing integration testing, and leveraging data analysis for failure characterization. The position also includes supporting environmental reliability testing and validating automated test systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create and maintain electrical system test strategy, and test plans for various Anduril products.
  2. Conduct electrical compliance and robustness testing such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-704, and MIL-STD-1275.
  3. Design and deploy electrical system integration test benches. (Iron Bird/Copper Bird/Lab Car).
  4. Support on vehicle level to component level test requirement decomposition.
  5. Drive coverage and analysis of failures observed in unit-level, integration, and system-level testing.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Electronics, Computer, Mechanical Engineering, or related fields
  • 5+ years of relevant industry experience with emphasis on EMI/EMC, hardware validation, and integration testing
  • Familiarity with hardware development life cycle, reliability, and compliance testing
  • General understanding of engineering concepts, principles, and theory with technical experience demonstrating the application of those concepts while ensuring safety and regulatory compliance
  • Familiarity with Python and/or MATLAB for data parsing and data visualization
  • Familiarity with electronics test equipment such as power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscope, function generators, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, network analyzers, data acquisition and measurement sensors
  • Familiarity with environmental testing such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275
  • Strong root cause analysis skills
  • Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to travel to and work at remote sites supporting test integration, commissioning, and training as required
  • Must be able to obtain a security clearance

Nice to have

  • 7+ years of relevant industry experience
  • Pursuing a Master’s of Science or PHD in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science or related field
  • Experience with firmware integration, vehicle level validation and debugging
  • Demonstrated knowledge of regulatory compliance standards
  • Familiarity with LabVIEW, TILE, or similar software for test execution and automation
  • Familiarity with analytical and modeling tools like SPICE, HFSS, CST, etc.

What the JD emphasized

  • emphasis on EMI/EMC, hardware validation, and integration testing
  • Familiarity with environmental testing such as MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD-464, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-810, and MIL-STD-1275
  • Must be able to obtain a security clearance