Senior Mechanical Engineer

Costa Mesa · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00) · USD 146,000-194,000 · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026

At a glance

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Mechanical Engineer to design, test, and validate Battery Management and Power Sub-Systems for autonomous vehicles.
This role involves complete lifecycle design from concept through production, vehicle-level integrations, and developing system interconnect diagrams.

Design, test, and validation of Battery Management and Power Sub-Systems (BMS) for autonomous vehicles.
Vehicle-level integrations and complete lifecycle design from concept through production, including requirements generation.
Develop system interconnect diagrams and define wire harnesses that connect electronic equipment.
Conduct peer-level and cross-discipline design reviews.
Build up and test of engine system components through lab, ground, and on-water tests.
Root cause analysis in support of field operations.

Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent, with 5+ years of experience designing, testing, and troubleshooting complex board designs.
Strong background in harness design, EE requirements generation, circuit design, including components, and mixed-signals design.
Experience with sensor integration.
Design experience in USVs, automotives, power electronics, or sensor suite/perception systems.
Competence with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, current-probes, and automation of tests.
Familiarity with standard interfaces such as CAN, I2C, SPI, etc.
Comfortable with a variety of electronic CAD tools (Altium preferred, Eagle and others acceptable).
Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

Performed environmental testing in previous positions for military, automotive, and/or commercial industry.
Previous experience working on BMS.
Experience in EMI testing.
Knowledge and test execution per MIL-STD-810 and/or MIL-STD-461.