Electrical Engineer, Maneuver Dominance
Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : MD - EE
Costa Mesa, California$132k - $171kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Electrical engineer role focused on design, integration, and testing of aircraft electrical systems for an early-stage autonomous air vehicle program in Costa Mesa, CA. Collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to create high-performance, mission-ready electro-mechanical systems for autonomous flight.
Responsibilities
- Full cycle aircraft systems electrical design and integration including requirements capture, system architecture design, equipment selection, supervision or completion of wire harness build, bring-up, test, and rework.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- 3+ years of experience (non-internship) designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs
- Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits
- Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests
- Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
- Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies
- Familiarity with software development processes and tools such as git, Github, JIRA, etc
- Comfortable with a variety of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred, Eagle and others acceptable)
- Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity
- Experience with battery systems and ability to support alternate battery systems design
- Experience with high reliability systems
- Experience with radio frequency-based systems
- Experience with rapid payload/sensor integration
- Experience in designing and integrating high power electronics
- Experience in fieldable system design
- Comfortable in conducting worst case circuit or uncertainty analysis
- High-ownership and a bias toward action – if you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
- Ability to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%
Skills
Required:Electrical design and integrationTroubleshooting across electrical and software boundariesPayloads and subsystems developmentSystem interconnects and wire harness designCross-functional collaborationDesign reviews and verification planning
Benefits
- Benefits package mentioned; detailed information available via Explore Our Benefits
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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