Staff Electrical Engineer (Weapons Systems)

Anduril • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

This role involves full-cycle PCB design, including requirements gathering, schematic design, component selection, layout supervision or completion, bring-up, testing, debugging, and system integration. The engineer will focus on developing fuzing circuitry for missile systems and collaborating with vehicle development teams to design, document, and produce tailored fuzing systems and effectors. Responsibilities also include developing system interconnect diagrams, defining wire harnesses, supporting other air vehicle subsystem development, conducting vendor surveys, performing design reviews, building up and testing system components, low-level firmware development, and root cause analysis for field operations.

Requirements

• BS or higher degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 12+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
• Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, thermal chambers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
• Familiarity with standard interfaces such as Ethernet, CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
• Familiarity with common MCU, CPU, FPGA devices and technologies.
• Knowledge of modern analog and digital electronics and electronic circuits.
• Comfortable with a variety of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred, Eagle and others acceptable)
• Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity
• Experience in design of modern analog/digital electronics and electronic circuits.
• Test experience including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance
• Ability to travel as required for testing (surges up to 25%).
• Passion for defending the United States and her allies.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice To Haves

• Active U.S. security clearance (DoD Secret or Top-Secret or DOE L or Q).
• 5-10 years’ work experience as an individual contributing engineer, focused on electrical design, analysis, and testing of fuzing and/or ordnance systems.
• Understanding of DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160 and relevant avionics design standards for UAS.
• Familiarity with electrical component suppliers.
• Experience in UAS, missiles, or maritime programs.
• Experience with the DoD Weapons Safety Boards.
• Experience designing and scaling production of components at volume.
• Experience developing or testing complex electrical systems.
• Experience with MIL-STD-1316, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD-2105.
• Experience with JOTP-052 and JOTP-054.
• Experience with explosive operations and/or handling munitions.

Responsibilities

• Full cycle PCB design including collecting requirements, schematic design, component selection, supervision or completion of layout, bring-up, test, debug and integration with the system.
• Development of fuzing circuitry for missile systems.
• Closely collaborate with vehicle development teams to design, document, and produce tailored fuzing systems and effectors.
• Develop system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses that connect electronic equipment within the vehicle.
• Provide support and collaborate within other air vehicle subsystem development constraints.
• Vendor surveys and evaluation to support sourcing for system components.
• Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews.
• Build up and test system components through lab, ground, and flight tests.
• Low level firmware development for bring-up and test.
• Root cause analysis in support of field operations.

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package.
• Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: Benefits At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next.

What This Job Offers

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