Senior Hardware Engineer - Mission Compute, Thunder

Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 129,000-198,000 · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Sep 25, 2026

At a glance

Anduril Industries is looking for a Senior Hardware Engineer to join the Thunder team within Maneuver Dominance.
The role involves owning the hardware challenges of a compact airframe with competing antenna real estate operating in a contested spectrum.
The engineer will develop avionics systems for an autonomous attack rotorcraft built to fight alongside crewed combat aviation.

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 air and ground vehicle avionics systems (flight controls, sensors, payloads, and networking)
Provide support and collaborate within other air vehicle subsystem development constraints
Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews
Build up and test of avionics 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
Work cross-functionally between software and hardware teams
Develop hardware bring-up and validation test plans, on bench top and on product

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ 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 CAN, I2C, SPI, PCIe, USB, etc.
Familiarity with digital communication busses, such as Ethernet, PCIe, HDMI.
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, others acceptable)
Experience in design for signal integrity / power integrity
U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data.

Experience shipping products in volume
Experience working on products for safety-critical applications, such as automotive, aviation, or
Understanding of DO-254, DO-178C, DO-160 and relevant avionics design standards for UAS