Electrical Test Engineer, Sentry

Anduril Anduril · Defense · Irvine, CA · AFS : Counter Intrusion Engineering : Sentry Electrical Engineering

Anduril Industries is seeking an Electrical Test Engineer to join their Sentry Hardware team. This role focuses on the end-to-end development, verification, integration, and testing of ruggedized electronics for defense systems, ensuring scalable, production, and mission-ready solutions. The engineer will be responsible for electrical integration, prototype and production support, component selection, PCB design, and testing for long-term reliability, manufacturability, and testability. The role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams and requires experience in digital and analog electronics design, troubleshooting, and full-cycle PCB design.

What you'd actually do

  1. Take ownership as the main point of contact for electrical integration activities.
  2. Provide hands on and in-field support of prototype and production level product.
  3. Collaborate with mechanical engineers to optimize selection, design and integration of high power components, modules and distribution.
  4. Trade-off component and module selections against size, weight, power and EMC requirements.
  5. Collaborate with design team to achieve reliability goals at a system level in context of concepts of operation.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum 5 years of professional experience
  • Self starter with the ability to design digital & analog electronics from concept and functional prototype, to production ready product.
  • Ability to troubleshoot existing hardware to find root cause of issues and implement improvements to design.
  • Develop clear documentation to capture design requirements, specifications, test coverage, and test reports.
  • Complete full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, validation, characterization, and integration with the system.
  • Work closely with other mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver fully functional products.
  • Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new developments, active deployments, and customer operated hardware.
  • Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages.
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 5+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs and products.
  • Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
  • Familiarity with switch mode power supply design and testing.
  • Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
  • Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
  • Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
  • Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral).
  • Proficient with Altium Designer or equivalent electronic design automation design tools.
  • Proficiency with scripting languages (Python, Matlab, etc.)
  • Ability to root cause Full stack HLOS application to hardware component level issues.

What the JD emphasized

  • Minimum 5 years of professional experience
  • Ability to design digital & analog electronics from concept and functional prototype, to production ready product.
  • Ability to troubleshoot existing hardware to find root cause of issues and implement improvements to improve the design.
  • Complete full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, validation, characterization, and integration with the system.
  • Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new developments, active deployments, and customer operated hardware.
  • Concurrently manage involvement in multiple projects at various stages.