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Senior Hardware Engineer - Mission Compute, Thunder

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : MD - EE
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Costa Mesa, CA$129k - $198kfull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Hardware Engineer to join the Thunder team and own avionics and hardware bring-up for the Thunder autonomous attack rotorcraft, focusing on air and ground vehicle avionics, PCB design, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug and integration with the system.
  • Development of air and ground vehicle avionics systems (flight controls, sensors, payloads, and networking)
  • Provide support and collaborate within other air vehicle subsystem development constraints
  • Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews
  • Build up and test of avionics system components through lab, ground, and flight tests
  • Low level firmware development for bring-up and test
  • Root cause analysis in support of field operations
  • Work cross-functionally between software and hardware teams
  • Develop hardware bring-up and validation test plans, on bench top and on product

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs
  • Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
  • Familiarity with standard interfaces such as CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
  • Familiarity with digital communication busses, such as Ethernet, PCIe, HDMI.
  • Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
  • Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
  • Comfortable with a variety of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred, others acceptable)
  • Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Skills

Required:PCB designavionics systems developmentfirmware developmenttest & measurement

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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