Senior Electrical Engineer, Missiles

Anduril Industries
Costa Mesa, California, United StatesPosted 24 February 2026

Job Description

<div class="content-intro"><p>Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.</p></div><h3><strong>ABOUT THE TEAM</strong></h3> <p>The <strong>Air Dominance and Strike (ADS) Electrical Engineering Team</strong> is responsible for developing high-reliability avionics, embedded processing, and power systems for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms. Working across hardware, software, and mission autonomy, the team delivers flight-critical electronics, PCB assemblies, and FPGA-based processing architectures that enable Anduril's next-generation autonomous air platforms to operate in complex and contested environments. ADS Electrical Engineers drive end-to-end development, from system architecture and circuit design to verification, integration, and flight test, ensuring scalable, mission-ready solutions that meet the performance, reliability, and survivability demands of the U.S. Military and modern air warfare.</p> <h3><strong><br>ABOUT THE JOB </strong></h3> <p>We are looking for an <strong>Electrical Engineer</strong> to join our rapidly growing team in <strong>Costa Mesa, CA</strong>. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end avionics systems and subsystems development. You will also be working on design, integration, testing, and validation processes. This will require knowledge and experience in PCB design, harnessing, process management, and cross-functional teamwork.<strong> </strong>If you are looking to join a team in rapid avionics development, then this role is for you.</p> <h4><strong>WHAT YOU’LL DO</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Develop high performance, high efficiency, and highly robust avionics solutions for air vehicle platforms</li> <li>Develop reliable on-board communication systems to exchange high bandwidth data across various air and ground assets</li> <li>Architect, design, and build high-speed digital PCBAs (schematic capture, simulation, board layout)</li> <li>Help decide what to do in-house and what to outsource, communicate design requirements with external vendors and help drive the progress</li> <li>Develop relationships with external vendors and communicate design requirements to external vendors and suppliers.</li> <li>Work cross-functionally between software, firmware and hardware teams</li> <li>Develop hardware validation test plans for sub-system and full system products.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field.</li> <li>8+ years relevant experience in embedded hardware design or computer engineering</li> <li>Experience designing high density PCB layouts with an understanding of cutting-edge PCB manufacturing technology.</li> <li>Deep understanding of thermal, mechanical, power and performance tradeoffs</li> <li>Experience with creating test plans, benchmarking and performing validation tests to determine performance of complex hardware systems.</li> <li>Understanding of high-speed interfaces (PCIe, DDR, USB, MIPI, etc.), power integrity, and signal integrity.</li> <li>Knowledgeable of EMI/EMC susceptibility and emissions along with mitigation experience.</li> <li>Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance</li> </ul> <h4>PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS</h4> <ul> <li>Experience with high performance SOM ... (truncated, view full listing at source)