Mechatronics - Electrical

$142,000 - $213,000/Yr

Anduril Industries - Costa Mesa, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Costa Mesa, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Anduril Industries is seeking a Mechatronics Engineer to join their team in Costa Mesa, CA. This role focuses on core product development for complex systems, including optical systems, batteries, mechanisms, control systems, and sensors. The engineer will work collaboratively across disciplines, demonstrating high ownership and practical skills in a fast-paced environment. The position offers significant growth potential and opportunities for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts in a wide range of fields.
• Identify partners in industry to engage with, and manage early vendor relationships.
• Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis of blue-sky engineering problems.
• Manage internal and external market research and comparisons.
• Design, implement, and test complex electro-mechanical systems.
• Maintain high-level system ownership with large levels of professional autonomy.
• Lead design reviews, run analysis, visit vendors, and define and execute hardware test plans.
• Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production.
• Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed.
• Travel to test sites as needed.
• Use first principles physics as a basis for every decision.

Requirements

• Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings).
• Demonstrated leadership skills (collegiate project teams or professional settings).
• 3+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting.
• Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion, and system integration.
• Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and layouts.
• High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles.
• Strong organizational skills.
• BS, MS or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. TS clearance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in ECAD (Altium, KiCad, etc.) and MCAD (Solidworks, NX).
• Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc.) from schematic to bringup.
• Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing).
• Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Familiarity with designing for rugged environments.
• Experience in bringing up device trees on embedded systems with a variety of connected sensors.
• Experience with Electro-Mechanical and Electrical design concepts.
• Experience in developing a variety of electronics hardware products (UAVs, wearables, firearms, high power electric propulsion, optical systems, or other complex mechanisms).
• Experience in characterizing circuits at both schematic and board level.
• Familiarity with wireless communication protocols.
• Experience with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485).
• Experience with motor and servo drive (BLDC/Brushed motor controller design, servo control systems).
• Practical experience with electrical engineering tools (Oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters).

Benefits

• Platinum Healthcare Benefits (100% covered for employees, 90% for dependents).
• Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance (100% covered).
• Generous company holiday calendar and highly competitive PTO plans.
• 16 weeks of paid Caregiver & Wellness Leave.
• Family Planning & Parenting Support (fertility, adoption, gestational carrier coverage).
• Mental Health Resources (free 24/7 therapy and life coaching).
• Additional work-life services (free legal and financial support).
• Professional development stipend available.
• Daily meals and provisions in many offices.
• Company-funded commuter benefits based on region.
• Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility).
• 401(k) retirement savings plan (traditional and Roth).