Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Electro-Mechanical (PCB design + Motors/Actuation)

The role

You will work on core product development for complex systems including optical systems, batteries, mechanisms, control systems, and sensors. You will design, implement, and test complex electro-mechanical systems and build prototypes.

What you will do

• Execute rapid evaluation of engineering concepts
• Identify and manage early vendor relationships
• Perform trade studies and physics-based analysis
• Manage internal and external market research
• Design, implementation, and test of complex electro-mechanical systems
• Lead design reviews and run analysis
• Visit vendors and define and execute hardware test plans
• Build prototypes and analyze failures
• Transition successful projects into production
• Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers

Required qualifications

• Experience in an immersive technical project
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• 5+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting
• Experience in PCB design and any ECAD (Altium, KiCAD, etc)
• Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing)
• Experience with controls/actuation, robotics, and or motor/servo drive systems (BLDC/brushed motor controller design and servo control systems)
• 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
• 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

Nice to have

• Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc) from schematic to bringup
• 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
• Familiarity with microcontroller wired communication protocols (USB, MIPI CSI2, SPI, I2C, CAN, CANFD, UART/RS232/RS422/RS485)
• Practical experience with electrical engineering tools (Oscilloscopes, power supplies, electronic loads, multimeters)

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. Top Secret security clearance
• Consent to pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.