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Senior Mechatronics Engineer

Anduril· Maritime & Maneuver Dominance : Maneuver Dominance Engineering : MD - ME
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About the role

Mechatronics Engineer to support integration of electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems for Omen hover-to-cruise autonomous AAV, with collaboration across Abu Dhabi, Costa Mesa engineering, and regional manufacturing/test partners.

Responsibilities

  • Bridge the mission system team and air vehicle 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.
  • Interface with regional customers and partners to align and deliver on end-user requirements.
  • 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
  • Basic proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python, MATLAB, C++, Bash or Rust) to automate testing, collect data, or interface with onboard software.
  • 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; e.g. 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%

Skills

Required:Payload hardware integrationSensor characterizationInterface control / harnessingSoftware/firmware for payload subsystems

Benefits

  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees)
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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