Andurilindustries

Electrical Engineering Manager, Air Dominance and Strike

Costa Mesa, California, United States. Posted 3 days ago

The role

You will lead and scale the Air Dominance and Strike hardware team. You will manage electrical engineers, drive technical execution, and establish hardware development processes for air platforms.

What you will do

  • Directly manage a high-performing team of electrical engineers
  • Drive career development and conduct performance reviews
  • Recruit top-tier hardware talent
  • Partner with Program Managers and Chief Engineers to balance resources, scope, budget, and schedule
  • Define and mature standard operating procedures for the hardware lifecycle
  • Serve as the senior technical authority for avionics hardware
  • Lead design reviews and ensure cross-subsystem compatibility
  • Act as the primary interface between the team and adjacent disciplines
  • Oversee strategic relationships with board fabrication, assembly, and component vendors

Required qualifications

  • 4+ years of formal people-management or proven technical team leadership experience
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or related discipline
  • 7+ years of industry experience in hardware development
  • Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver complex hardware milestones
  • Technical grounding in analog/digital circuits, power architectures, high-speed interfaces, and processing systems
  • Experience defining or evolving hardware test frameworks, qualification standards, and design-for-manufacturing best practices
  • Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

  • Experience managing engineering teams in a rapid-prototyping, fast-paced startup or defense-tech environment
  • Prior experience navigating military and aviation compliance frameworks (e.g., DO-254, DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461)
  • Experience managing harness/interconnect engineering and system-level vehicle integration
  • Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance
  • Experience with RCC-319 and Flight Termination System

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
  • 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. The company uses Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system, to power its family of systems.

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