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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming military capabilities through advanced autonomy, AI, computer vision, and sensor fusion. The Maneuver Dominance team develops multi-asset autonomy systems, including Omen, a hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) with runway independence. Omen has secured a mass-production contract for 50 systems and represents a decisive investment in next-generation defense platforms.
You will be based in Abu Dhabi supporting the integration of electromechanical actuation, sensing, and control subsystems that enable Omen's hover-to-cruise transition and sensor/payload module integration. You will partner closely with the Costa Mesa engineering team and regional manufacturing and test partners.
Key responsibilities include:
- Bridge mission system and air vehicle teams to ensure alignment
- Own payload hardware integration end-to-end: EO/IR and imaging sensors, RF payloads, gimbals, rangefinders, inertial and position sensing
- Drive mission system selection through trade studies balancing performance, SWaP, thermal, latency, and environmental robustness
- Interface with regional customers and partners to align and deliver on end-user requirements
- Characterize sensors on the bench and in flight: noise, latency, bias and drift, boresight stability, and failure modes
- Define and own payload interface control: mechanical mounting and alignment, power and signal definitions, harnessing, vehicle bus integration, and time synchronization
- Write production software and firmware for payload subsystems: drivers, sensor processing, pointing and stabilization control loops, calibration and coordinate frame libraries, health management
- 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 spanning mechanical, electrical, firmware, and software boundaries
- Feed lessons learned back into ICDs, calibration procedures, and production assembly and acceptance test documentation
REQUIREMENTS:
- Strong engineering background from industry or school, ideally 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 (Python, MATLAB, C++, Bash, or Rust) to automate testing, collect data, or interface with onboard software
- 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 (cameras, IMUs, encoders, GNSS, LIDAR)
- 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 electrical engineers; familiarity with CAD (SolidWorks, NX, or equivalent)
- High ownership and bias toward action
- Ability to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- VTOL, tail-sitter, or rotorcraft experience, and familiarity with the payload environment they create (vibration, EMI, rotor wash)
- 3+ years of Rust (or C++) in a Linux environment, plus tooling in Python; demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
- Experience with rapid payload/sensor integration onto unmanned platforms, including flight test support
- Experience with gimbals, stabilized pointing, boresighting, and geo-referencing or targeting chains
- Experience in perception, localization, mapping, tracking, or guidance, and related system performance metrics
- 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) for electromechanical assemblies
