Datalinks Engineer

$120,000 - $180,000/Yr

Anduril Industries - Costa Mesa, CA

posted 2 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Costa Mesa, CA
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

As a Datalinks Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will play a crucial role in architecting, designing, integrating, and testing communications networks across various platforms and systems, with a particular focus on Command and Control (C2) Systems. Your work will involve configuring, simulating, and evaluating networking equipment, topologies, systems, and datalinks to ensure optimal performance and reliability. You will be responsible for developing system interconnect diagrams and defining the necessary cables and wire harnesses that connect networking and communications systems. Additionally, you will select and manage vendors for PWAs, cables, connectors, and components, ensuring that all elements meet the high standards required for military applications. Your expertise in the electrical integration of avionics modules and payloads into UAVs, ground vehicles, and weapons systems will be essential as you support other functional engineering teams in their development efforts. You will represent the communications and networking subsystems in vehicle-level cross-disciplinary trade-off studies, helping to define and optimize the design of various vehicles and systems. This position requires a collaborative approach, as you will work closely with other teams to define product requirements, develop specifications, and conduct system-level tests. In this role, you will also need to stay abreast of the latest advancements in aviation communications systems, tactical communication systems, and network security, ensuring that your designs are resilient, redundant, and fault-tolerant. Your ability to troubleshoot and configure networks practically will be vital, as will your knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits. You will be expected to travel up to 25% of the time and must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, design, integrate and test communications networks across a variety of platforms and systems with a focus on C2 (Command and Control) Systems
  • Configure, simulate and evaluate networking equipment, topologies, systems and datalinks
  • Develop system interconnect diagrams and define cables and wire harnesses that connect networking and communications systems
  • Select and manage PWAs, cable, connector, and component vendors
  • Experience in the electrical integration of avionics modules and payloads into UAVs, ground vehicles, and weapons systems, and C2 systems
  • Support other functional engineering team's development effort with an understanding of networks/communications, system impacts and trades regarding network/communication
  • Represent the communications and networking sub-systems in vehicle-level cross-disciplinary trade-off studies that define and optimize the design of various vehicles and systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
  • 7+ years of experience with communication systems architecture and design for high reliability, resiliency, redundancy and/or fault tolerance
  • Ability to work collaboratively with other teams to define product requirements, develop specifications and conduct system level test
  • Knowledge of aviation communications systems (radio, antennae, and similar systems) and tactical communication systems
  • Knowledge of the fundamentals of Ethernet and similar networks
  • Understanding of hardware evaluation methodologies, including development of test cases/suites, performance monitoring, test automation, and data analysis
  • Experience with practical network configuration and troubleshooting
  • Experience with network modeling and simulation
  • Knowledge of integration and implementation of network security and the impact of security on network design
  • Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits
  • Understanding of EMI and common system level integration issues
  • Proficient with a variety of vendors of networking equipment
  • Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests
  • Knowledgeable in Python
  • Must be able to travel 25% of the time
  • Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Nice-to-haves

  • Understanding and familiarity with DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160, DO-311A
  • Understanding and familiarity with MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL

Benefits

  • Platinum Healthcare Benefits: 100% covered for you and 90% for dependents
  • Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered
  • Extremely generous company holiday calendar and highly competitive PTO plans
  • 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave
  • Family Planning & Parenting Support including fertility and adoption coverage
  • Mental Health Resources available 24/7
  • Professional development stipend available to all employees
  • Daily Meals and Provisions in many offices
  • Company-funded commuter benefits
  • Relocation assistance based on role eligibility
  • 401(k) retirement savings plan with traditional and Roth options
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