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Salary: USD 126,000 - 167,000 / annual
Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities through advanced technology. The Imaging team develops state-of-the-art imaging systems across hardware and software, now extending capabilities into orbit with space-based EO/IR and sensing payloads under a New Space philosophy: aggressive schedules, commercial-cadence engineering, and rapid hardware deployment.
As an Electronics Designer on the Anduril Imaging team, you will own the electronics architecture for space-bound imaging payloads and drive their design from concept through flight. This is a system-level role for an engineer who can hold the whole payload in their head—defining electrical architecture, making build-versus-buy and COTS-versus-rad-hard tradeoffs that keep schedule and cost in check, and going hands-on to lay out, bring up, and qualify hardware. You will set technical direction for power, sensor, and interface electronics while remaining hands-on to see designs take flight.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own electrical architecture for imaging payloads, partitioning systems and defining power, sensor, data, and interface electronics
- Lead design, layout, bring-up, and qualification of PCBAs spanning analog, mixed-signal, FPGAs, and power electronics for EO/IR sensor systems
- Translate sensor and system performance models into electrical requirements; push back on requirements that don't earn their place on the critical path
- Drive rapid design-build-test cycles: prototype quickly, characterize on the bench, iterate on real hardware, and converge on flight-ready designs
- Design for the space environment (radiation, thermal extremes, vacuum, vibration, launch loads) and own analysis and testing (TVAC, vibe, EMI/EMC)
- Bake in design for manufacturability and assembly (DFM/DFA) from first schematic
- Lead board bring-up, integration, and troubleshooting in lab and during environmental testing
- Partner closely with firmware, optics, mechanical, systems, and program teams
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to other electrical engineers; serve as design-review anchor
- Document architectures, designs, analyses, and test results to flight-readiness standards
You will operate with high autonomy, make well-informed engineering judgments about which requirements are load-bearing, iterate on real hardware, and demonstrate discipline for manufacturability, test, and EMI/EMC compliance from day one. Work in rapid design cycles where the goal is to get capable, robust hardware into space in twelve months or less.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering spanning system-level architecture, electronics design, and hands-on test, with track record of owning designs end to end
- Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Demonstrated ownership of electronics architecture for a complex electromechanical or sensor system, including tradeoff decisions that shaped it
- Strong analog, digital, mixed-signal, and power electronics design experience with deep schematic capture and PCB layout proficiency
- Proven ability to take hardware from architecture through bring-up, integration, and qualification—including hands-on debug in lab
- Experience delivering hardware on aggressive timelines and working in rapid, iterative design cycles
- Excellent engineering judgment, problem-solving, and ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information under schedule pressure
- Ability to collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Eligible to obtain and maintain active U.S. Secret security clearance
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Direct experience designing electronics for space, especially New Space/commercial-cadence programs that flew hardware in a year or less
- Familiarity with space environment and qualification: radiation effects (TID/SEE), rad-hard and rad-tolerant part selection, COTS-for-space approaches, TVAC, vibration, and EMI/EMC
- Experience with EO/IR, RF, optical, or other sensor and communication systems
- Experience designing for manufacturability and assembly, and transitioning proven designs toward low-rate production
- Familiarity with analytical tools and programming languages such as MATLAB, Python, or C++
- Understanding of system integration processes and workflows in aerospace or defense environments
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading design reviews
