Senior Electrical Engineer, Surveillance Tower

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

Senior Electrical Engineer for a defense technology company developing surveillance towers with AI-enabled edge processing. The role focuses on end-to-end electrical hardware development, from architecture and design to verification and integration, ensuring production-ready solutions for military applications. Responsibilities include PCB design, component selection, testing, and troubleshooting for ruggedized electronics.

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 8+ 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 improve the 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
  • 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 8+ years of professional experience
  • 8+ years of experience designing, testing and troubleshooting complex board designs and products