Senior Mechatronics Engineer

The role

You will support the integration of electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems for the Omen autonomous air vehicle. You will also support the integration of Omen sensor and payload modules.

What you will do

• Bridge the mission system team and air vehicle teams
• Own payload hardware integration end to end
• Drive mission system selection through trade studies
• Interface with regional customers and partners
• 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

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
• Basic proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g., Python, MATLAB, C++, Bash or Rust)
• Proficiency across a meaningful portion of the robotics stack, from sensor interfacing to actuation
• 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, with 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)
• High ownership and a bias toward action
• Ability to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%

Nice to have

• VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience
• 3+ years of Rust (or C++) in a Linux environment, plus tooling in Python
• 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
• Experience troubleshooting remotely deployed software on fielded hardware
• 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

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• By submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct 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.