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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, deployed to address significant security challenges. The team is extending capabilities into orbit by building space-based EO/IR and sensing payloads under a New Space philosophy: aggressive schedules, commercial-cadence engineering, and a relentless bias toward flying hardware. The standard is to take a payload from architecture to orbit in a year or less.
As a System Architect 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 the electrical architecture, making build-versus-buy and COTS-versus-rad-hard tradeoffs that keep schedule and cost in check, and then going hands-on to lay out, bring up, and qualify the hardware. You will set the technical direction for power, sensor, and interface electronics, and remain hands-on to see your individual designs take flight.
Key responsibilities include: owning the electrical architecture for imaging payloads, partitioning the system, and defining power, sensor, data, and interface electronics; leading the design, layout, bring-up, and qualification of PCBAs spanning analog, mixed-signal, FPGAs, and power electronics for EO/IR sensor systems; translating sensor and system performance models into electrical requirements and pushing back on requirements that don't earn their place on the critical path; driving rapid design-build-test cycles with prototyping, characterization, and iteration on real hardware; designing for the space environment (radiation, thermal extremes, vacuum, vibration, launch loads) and owning analysis and testing (TVAC, vibe, EMI/EMC); baking in design for manufacturability and assembly (DFM/DFA) from the first schematic; leading board bring-up, integration, and troubleshooting in the lab and during environmental testing; partnering closely with firmware, optics, mechanical, systems, and program teams; mentoring and providing technical guidance to other electrical engineers; and documenting architectures, designs, analyses, and test results to flight-readiness standards.
You will operate with a high degree of autonomy, work in rapid design cycles, and make well-informed engineering judgments about which requirements are load-bearing and which aren't. You will demonstrate discipline in designing for manufacturability, test, and EMI/EMC compliance from day one and serve as a technical anchor for less experienced engineers on the team.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of experience in electrical engineering spanning system-level architecture, electronics design, and hands-on test, with a 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 the 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 the lab
- Experience delivering hardware on aggressive timelines and working in rapid, iterative design cycles
- Excellent engineering judgment, problem-solving, and the ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information under schedule pressure
- Ability to collaborate effectively across a multidisciplinary engineering team
- Eligible to obtain and maintain an 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 the 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
