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Staff Electrical Engineer, Advanced Targeting System

Anduril· Connected Warfare : Edge Compute & Communications Engineering : Compute & Comms Engineering Design
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Costa Mesa, CA$132k - $198kFull-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Staff Electrical Engineer responsible for taking a soldier-portable, auto-aiming counter-UAS prototype through ruggedization and into a production-ready design, leading EE subsystems, and coordinating with manufacturing and leadership.

Responsibilities

  • Own the electrical architecture end-to-end, assessing the existing prototype, documenting tribal knowledge, and identifying EE-specific gaps across power, sensing, compute, and actuator drive subsystems.
  • Build a technical roadmap that bridges the current prototype to a full Weapon Systems prototype with long-term production-intent parts and architecture.
  • Help hire and lead a multidisciplinary engineering team (EE, ME, SW) capable of rapidly iterating and prototyping complex hardware systems under aggressive timelines.
  • Drive design and integration of EE subsystems, including electro-optical/IR sensors, power and compute boards, actuator drive electronics, and control systems — balancing bandwidth, force, speed, SWaP, and ruggedization trade-offs.
  • Establish and execute test plans for electro-optical, actuator, and power subsystems, and adapt based on data to deliver a working product on a short timeline.
  • Ruggedize, qualify, and certify the integrated prototype against expected shock, vibration, thermal, and environmental conditions for a soldier-carried platform.
  • Transition the validated design into early production, collaborating with manufacturing, test/evaluation, and supply chain to ensure scalability.
  • Communicate program status directly to executive and CEO-level stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • B.S. or higher in Electrical Engineering or a related technical field.
  • 8+ years of professional electrical engineering experience with a track record of design ownership on complex electromechanical systems.
  • Proven ability to lead and manage a multi-disciplinary engineering team to rapidly iterate and prototype hardware systems.
  • Experience taking hardware from bench prototype through ruggedization to early manufacturing (prototype-to-production).
  • Familiarity with actuator dynamics — bandwidth, force, and speed trade-offs — and the associated drive electronics and control systems.
  • Breadth across EE subsystems, including electro-optical/IR sensors, power and compute board design, and closed-loop control systems.
  • Ability to author and execute pragmatic test plans, interpret results, and change course to deliver a working product on an aggressive timeline.
  • Self-starter mentality with ability to identify problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute with minimal oversight.
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export-controlled data.

Skills

Required:Electrical architecture
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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