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Salary: USD 146,000 - 194,000 / 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 critical 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 for Space Electronics, 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. You will work in rapid design cycles where the goal is to get capable, robust hardware into space in twelve months or less. You will make well-informed engineering judgments about which requirements are load-bearing and which aren't, iterate on real hardware, and demonstrate the discipline to design for manufacturability, test, and EMI/EMC compliance from day one. You will operate with a high degree of autonomy and be a technical anchor for less experienced engineers on the team.
Key responsibilities include: owning the electrical architecture for imaging payloads and driving architectural tradeoffs; 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; 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.
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
