Battery Systems Engineer

Anduril • Costa Mesa, CA

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About The Position

Anduril is seeking an experienced engineer with expertise in energy storage subsystem development. The role applies technical experience from defense, aerospace, industrial, or electrification industries to Anduril’s challenges. The engineer will develop and integrate energy storage systems from concept through production, aligned with strategic business goals. The position may also involve managing vendor relationships and ensuring performance and reliability of Anduril technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or fundamental Physical Sciences with an applied focus on energy storage technologies.
• At least 5 years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting energy storage systems.
• Understanding of UN38.3, NAVSEA S9310, and/or equivalent secondary battery safety standards such as UL or IEC.
• Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, and current probes, and with test automation.
• Familiarity with common electrochemical energy storage materials, technologies, and operating boundaries.
• Knowledge of modern battery management system capabilities, failure-mode protections, and theories of operation.
• Experience with battery characterization methods, including pulse power characterization across state of charge, cycle life, and safety features.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or fundamental Physical Sciences with a focus on energy storage technologies.
• Understanding of and familiarity with MIL-STD-882, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461, and MIL-STD-464.

Responsibilities

• Develop energy storage system (ESS) architecture and guide design decisions for venting, thermal management and shielding, interconnects and harnessing, housing, and encapsulation.
• Bring up, test, debug, and integrate ESS with the system.
• Support and collaborate with others on mission profile constraints.
• Interact with and evaluate vendors to support sourcing of ESS components.
• Participate in cross-discipline design reviews involving ESS systems.
• Support root cause analysis in field operations.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers and are considered part of total compensation.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, described as comprehensive and competitive and available at little to no cost to employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level