Senior Electrical Sustainment Engineer

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

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company developing autonomous drones and solid rocket motors. They are seeking a Senior Electrical Sustainment Engineer to manage product sustainment, perform design updates on embedded electronics, and troubleshoot issues. The role requires experience with embedded systems, microcontrollers, communication busses, and electronic design tools, with a focus on ensuring continuous production and supporting new product introductions in a fast-paced environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help manage product sustainment in a production process with engineering improvements, product cost down, and sourcing engineering support
  2. Perform and own design updates of embedded electronics, including hardware selection, schematic & PCB updates, board bring-up, validation and system level integration
  3. Work closely with other electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to perform product updates driven by new feature requests and/or component obsolescence's
  4. Troubleshoot issues that span the electrical and software boundaries, with solid skills using both lab equipment (Oscilloscopes, DMM, etc.) and software debugging tools
  5. Support sourcing teams with managing long lead and end-of-life components to ensure continuous production.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
  • 8+ years of experience designing, testing, troubleshooting and sustaining complex embedded systems and products
  • Demonstrated experience with some of the following: 8- and 32-bit Microcontrollers, Linux-based SOCs, Ethernet, common communication busses (SPI, I2C), and power regulation
  • 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

  • Knowledge of embedded software development, including use of timers, interrupts, hardware peripherals such as SPI controllers and ADCs
  • Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira
  • Familiarity with software development processes and tools such as git, Github, etc
  • Experience with developing for a safety-critical environment
  • Experience working on products used in tough environments (automotive, aerospace, defense, etc.)

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience designing, testing, troubleshooting and sustaining complex embedded systems and products
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance