Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Omen

The role

This person will own the integration of electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems for the Omen autonomous air vehicle. They will bridge software and hardware teams and manage payload hardware integration end to end.

What you will do

• Bridge the software team and hardware teams
• Own payload hardware integration end to end
• Drive mission system selection through trade studies
• Characterize sensors on the bench and in flight
• Define and own payload interface control
• Write production software and firmware for payload subsystems
• Support aircraft integration, bring-up, and functional checkout
• Plan and execute ground and flight test campaigns
• Lead root-cause investigations for payload and pointing anomalies
• Feed lessons learned back into ICDs, calibration procedures, and documentation

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering background from industry or school 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
• 3+ years of C++ (or Rust) in a Linux environment
• Tooling in Python
• Demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
• Proficiency across a meaningful portion of the robotics stack
• 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
• Experience building and executing hardware test rigs
• 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)

Nice to have

• VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience
• Familiarity with the payload environment they create (vibration, EMI, rotor wash)
• Experience with rapid payload/sensor integration onto unmanned platforms
• Experience with gimbals, stabilized pointing, boresighting, and geo-referencing or targeting chains
• Experience in perception, localization, mapping, tracking, or guidance
• Embedded firmware in C, including device drivers and optimizing for limited resources
• Familiarity with avionics buses (ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet avionics) and time sync (PTP, PPS)
• Modeling and controls in MATLAB/Simulink
• Experience building SIL/HIL simulators
• Environmental qualification testing experience (MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-461)

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

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

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. They develop a family of systems powered by Lattice OS.