Mechatronics Engineer - (fw/mcus/robotics)

Mechatronics Engineer - (FW/MCUs/Robotics)

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century's most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

About The Job

Anduril is seeking a Mechatronics Engineer to join the team at our Costa Mesa HQ. Here you will work on core product development for complex systems, including but not limited to optical systems, batteries, mechanisms, control systems, and sensors. The role requires high ownership and frequent collaboration with other core disciplines. The ideal candidate would be practical, hands-on and a self starter. High growth potential is possible as well as additional leadership opportunities.

What You'll Do

Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts in a wide range of fields

Identify partners in industry to engage with, and manage early vendor relationships

Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis of blue-sky engineering problems

Manage internal and external market research and comparisons

Design, implementation, and test of complex electro-mechanical systems

High level system ownership with large levels of professional autonomy

Lead design reviews, run analysis, visit vendors, define and execute hardware test plans

Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production

Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed

Travel to test sites as needed

Use first principles physics as a basis for every decision

Wear many hats

Required Qualifications

Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

Demonstrated leadership skills (collegiate project teams or professional settings)

3+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting

Familiarity with microcontrollers, power conversion and system integration

Ability to read, interpret, and manipulate schematics, wiring diagrams, and layouts.

High competence with, and fluid use of, engineering first principles

Experience in firmware development for bare-metal, or embedded systems.

Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc) from schematic to bringup

Experience with any: controls, robotics, and or motor/servo drive systems (BLDC/brushed motor controller design and servo control systems)

Strong organizational skills

BS, MS or PhD in an engineering field, or equivalent work experience

Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in ECAD (Altium, KiCad, etc) and MCAD (Solidworks, NX)

Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing)

Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills

Familiarity with designing for rugged environments

Experience in bringing up device trees on embedded systems with a variety of connected sensors

Experience with Electro-Mechanical and Electrical design concepts

Experience in developing a variety of electronics hardware products (UAVs, wearables, firearms, high power electric propulsion, optical systems, or other complex mechanisms)

Experience in characterizing circuits at both schematic and board level

Familiarity with wireless communication protocols

Experience with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485)

Experience with motor and servo drive (BLDC/Brushed motor controller design, servo control systems)

Practical experience with electrical engineering tools (Oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters)