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Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Omen

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : MD - ME
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Costa Mesa, CA$146k - $194kFull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

Senior Mechatronics Engineer responsible for integrating electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems enabling Omen's hover-to-cruise transition, coordinating software and hardware teams, and supporting payload integration and flight testing.

Responsibilities

  • Bridge the software team and hardware teams, ensuring both teams are in alignment
  • Own payload hardware integration end to end (EO/IR and imaging sensors, RF payloads, gimbals, rangefinders, inertial and position sensing)
  • Drive mission system selection through trade studies balancing performance, SWaP, thermal, latency, and environmental robustness
  • Characterize sensors on the bench and in flight: noise, latency, bias and drift, boresight stability, and failure modes
  • Define and own payload interface control; mechanical mounting and alignment, power and signal definitions, harnessing, vehicle bus integration, and time synchronization
  • Write production software and firmware for payload subsystems; drivers, sensor processing, pointing and stabilization control loops, calibration and coordinate frame libraries, health management
  • Support aircraft integration, bring-up, and functional checkout, and plan and execute ground and flight test campaigns for payload performance
  • Lead root-cause investigations for payload and pointing anomalies spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software boundaries
  • Feed lessons learned back into ICDs, calibration procedures, and production assembly and acceptance test documentation

Qualifications

  • Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally in Mechatronics, Robotics, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace, Computer Science, or Physics
  • 4+ years of hands-on electromechanical and sensor integration experience in robotics, aerospace, or similar
  • 3+ years of C++ (or Rust) in a Linux environment, plus tooling in Python; demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
  • Proficiency across a meaningful portion of the robotics stack, from sensor interfacing to actuation
  • Solid grasp of low-level communications (Ethernet, CAN, UART, SPI, I2C), real-time systems, and motor control
  • Experience with sensor characterization, calibration, and coordinate frame management; cameras, IMUs, encoders, GNSS, or LIDAR
  • Experience building and executing hardware test rigs, with competence on oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DMMs, and test automation
  • Ability to read schematics, support board bring-up, and define harnesses alongside EEs; familiarity with CAD (SolidWorks, NX, or equivalent)
  • High ownership and a bias toward action
  • Ability to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Electromechanical and sensor integrationC++ or RustPython toolingSensor characterization and calibrationElectrical schematic reading & harness designCAD (SolidWorks, NX)Hardware test engineering
Nice to have:Time synchronizationGimbals/pointing systems

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including health and recovery support (as described in the job post)
  • Equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are part of total compensation
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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