Senior Electrical Design Engineer, Integrated Product Team Lead
Anduril· Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Hardware : Electrical Engineering
Costa Mesa, CA$146k - $194kFull-timePosted 4mo ago
About the role
Senior Electrical Engineer IPT Lead in Costa Mesa, CA, focusing on electrical integration, PCB design, power systems, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver mission-critical defense hardware.
Responsibilities
- Lead full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug, and system integration
- Lead bring-up and design work on microcontrollers, ensuring seamless integration within the system
- Troubleshoot issues that span electrical and software boundaries, utilizing both lab equipment and basic software debugging tools
- Work in a fast-paced environment supporting new developments, deployments, and customer operated hardware
- Perform power design, including development and integration of power management systems and components
- Develop payloads and subsystems (sensors, payload interfaces, power management, and networking)
- Create system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses that connect electronic equipment within a subsystem
- Collaborate closely with other electrical, mechanical, software, firmware, and test engineers to deliver fully functional, mission-critical products
- Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 8+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex system designs
- Ability to perform power system and electrical loading analysis, simulation, and testing to determine optimal solutions
- High competence using lab test equipment with familiarity of thermal and EMI test chambers and using basic software debugging tools
- Familiarity with common electrical bus interfaces (CAN, I2C, SPI, Ethernet, RS232/422, RS485, USB)
- Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral)
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance
- Experience with power design and power management systems
- Hands-on experience with microcontrollers, including bring-up and design work
- Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits
- Experience designing mixed-signal PCBs with multiple layer counts, layer stackup and impedance matching for power and sensor applications, understanding correct grounding approaches and employing appropriate board protections and filtering
- Understanding of low voltage and high voltage power electronics and control systems to drive interconnect diagrams and cable harnessing designs
Skills
Required:PCB designMicrocontroller bring-upPower design and power managementSystem interconnect and cable harnessingHardware-software interfacesCross-disciplinary collaboration
Benefits
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost
Last updated Sep 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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