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Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Staff Electrical Engineer - Advanced Targeting System

Controls & Automation EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCosta Mesa, CA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field is required.
  • At least 8 years of professional electrical engineering experience with a demonstrated track record of design ownership on complex electromechanical systems.
  • Proven ability to lead and manage a multidisciplinary engineering team to rapidly iterate and prototype hardware systems.
  • Demonstrated experience taking hardware from bench prototype through ruggedization to early manufacturing.
  • Familiarity with actuator dynamics, including bandwidth, force, and speed trade-offs, and associated drive electronics and control systems.
  • Breadth across electrical engineering subsystems, including electro-optical/infrared sensors, power and compute board design, and closed-loop control systems.
  • Ability to author and execute pragmatic test plans, interpret results, and change course when required to deliver a working product on an aggressive timeline.
  • Ability to identify problems, propose solutions, and execute with minimal oversight.
  • U.S. Person status is required to access export-controlled data.

Responsibilities

  • Own the electrical architecture end-to-end by assessing the existing prototype, documenting tribal knowledge, and identifying electrical engineering gaps across power, sensing, compute, and actuator drive subsystems.
  • Build a technical roadmap that bridges the current prototype to a full Weapon Systems prototype with long-term production-intent parts and architecture.
  • Help hire and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team comprising electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and software engineering to rapidly iterate and prototype complex hardware systems.
  • Drive design and integration of electrical engineering subsystems, including electro-optical/infrared sensors, power and compute boards, actuator drive electronics, and control systems, balancing bandwidth, force, speed, size, weight, and power, and ruggedization trade-offs.
  • Establish and execute test plans for electro-optical, actuator, and power subsystems, and change course quickly when data requires it to deliver a working product in a short time period.
  • Ruggedize, qualify, and certify the integrated prototype against the shock, vibration, thermal, and environmental conditions expected on a soldier-carried platform.
  • Transition the validated design into early production, collaborating with manufacturing, test and evaluation, and supply chain to ensure the design can scale.
  • Communicate program status directly to executive- and CEO-level stakeholders, representing the technical state of a high-visibility, high-priority program.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience designing soldier-portable platforms with practical size, weight, and power and ergonomic constraints.
  • Experience with sensor fusion, computer vision model integration, and algorithm pipelines at the system level.
  • Background in counter-unmanned aircraft systems, fire control, or precision targeting systems.
  • Experience designing for extreme shock, vibration, and environmental sealing in defense or ruggedized applications.
  • Experience communicating program status to executive- and CEO-level stakeholders.
  • Active Secret Security clearance or higher, or prior cleared work with the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.

About the Company

Anduril

Builds autonomous weapons for the US and allies

Anduril builds autonomous weapons, such as drones, cruise missiles, and robot submarines, for the US military and its allies, often developing them with its own money before any order arrives. In 2024 it beat Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman for an Air Force contract to develop Fury, a pilotless jet that flies alongside crewed fighters. Its Lattice software merges camera and radar feeds into one live map and lets a few operators direct many drones and weapons at once, including other companies' systems. Governments buy its systems under contract, and Anduril builds much of the hardware in its own factories. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey co-founded Anduril in 2017, and it is based in Costa Mesa, California.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Private
Total funding
$11.5B
Headquarters
Costa Mesa, CA
Founded
2017

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