Staff Power Electronics Engineer (10kw+)

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

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company seeking an experienced Electrical Engineer to lead power electronics subsystems development. The role involves electrical design, test, and integration of high power conversion systems (DC/DC and DC/AC) from concept to production, with a focus on defense, aerospace, or industrial applications. Responsibilities include serving as a subject matter expert, collaborating on component selection and integration, creating schematics, and ensuring reliability and performance. Requires a BS in Electrical Engineering, 5+ years of experience in power electronics, switch-mode topologies, and control theory, with proven capability in high voltage/power designs and experience in military/aerospace compliance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as a subject matter expert for power conversion activities within your program(s) work.
  2. Collaborate with mechanical engineers to optimize selection, design and integration of high power components and interconnection.
  3. Create organized and intuitive block diagrams and/or schematics for power electronic systems.
  4. Trade-off component selections against size, weight and power requirements.
  5. Collaborate with design team to achieve reliability goals at a system level in context of concepts of operation.

Skills

Required

  • BS in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
  • 5+ years of experience in electrical engineering specializing in power electronics, switch-mode topologies, and feedback controls
  • Proven capability to design, build & test high voltage, high power designs
  • Designing and developing power electronics, especially DC/DC converter and inverters in the tens of kW to MW range
  • Strong knowledge of control theory and implementation
  • Experience working in military or aerospace industries with a strong background in MIL-STD-461, 464, 810, DO-160 compliance, or similar industrial/automotive standards
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • MS/PhD in relevant discipline with a focus in power electronics
  • Embedded software for control of inverters and/or other power electronics
  • Experienced with Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
  • Familiarity with Altium Designer
  • Design-for-Reliability, including DFMEA
  • Design/test for EMI compatibility

What the JD emphasized

  • high power components
  • high power designs
  • MIL-STD-461, 464, 810, DO-160 compliance