Senior Mechatronics Engineer, Omen

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Andurils hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs the endurance payload and mission flexibility of much larger airplanes into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform. Omen can operate from ship decks beaches or remote island clearings providing true runway independence and freedom of maneuver across defense and civilian domains. Omen is the first tail-sitter aircraft with a mass-production contract with an order of 50 systems representing a decisive investment that anchors production and accelerates the development of future systems.

Formula SAE Baja SAE Design Build Fly or an equivalent history of building things that move. We need a Mechatronics Engineer to own the integration of electromechanical actuation sensing and control subsystems that enable Omens hover-to-cruise transition ensuring every system payload and sensor interface performs reliably across the full flight envelope.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Bridge the software team and hardware teams ensuring both teams are in alignment.
• Own payload hardware integration end to end. EO/IR and imaging sensors RF payloads gimbals rangefinders inertial and position sensing.
• Drive mission system selection through trade studies balancing performance SWaP thermal latency and environmental robustness.
• Characterize sensors on the bench and in flight: noise latency bias and drift boresight stability and failure modes
• Define and own payload interface control; mechanical mounting and alignment power and signal definitions harnessing vehicle bus integration and time synchronization
• Write production software and firmware for payload subsystems; drivers sensor processing pointing and stabilization control loops calibration and coordinate frame libraries health management
• Support aircraft integration bring-up and functional checkout and plan and execute ground and flight test campaigns for payload performance
• Lead root-cause investigations for payload and pointing anomalies spanning mechanical electrical firmware and software boundaries
• Feed lessons learned back into ICDs calibration procedures and production assembly and acceptance test documentation

• Strong engineering background from industry or school ideally in Mechatronics Robotics Electrical Engineering Aerospace Computer Science or Physics
• 4 years of hands-on electromechanical and sensor integration experience in robotics aerospace or similar
• 3 years of C (or Rust) in a Linux environment plus tooling in Python; demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
• Proficiency across a meaningful portion of the robotics stack from sensor interfacing to actuation. Partial stack is okay
• Solid grasp of low-level communications (Ethernet CAN UART SPI I2C) real-time systems and motor control
• Experience with sensor characterization calibration and coordinate frame management; cameras IMUs encoders GNSS or LIDAR
• Experience building and executing hardware test rigs with competence on oscilloscopes logic analyzers DMMs and test automation
• Ability to read schematics support board bring-up and define harnesses alongside EEs; familiarity with CAD (SolidWorks NX or equivalent)
• High ownership and a bias toward action
• Ability to travel 25% with potential surges above 25%
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

• VTOL tail-sitter or rotorcraft experience and familiarity with the payload environment they create (vibration EMI rotor wash)
• Experience with rapid payload/sensor integration onto unmanned platforms including flight test support
• Experience with gimbals stabilized pointing boresighting and geo-referencing or targeting chains
• Experience in perception localization mapping tracking or guidance and related system performance metrics
• Embedded firmware in C including device drivers and optimizing for limited resources
• Familiarity with avionics buses (ARINC 429 MIL-STD-1553 Ethernet avionics) and time sync (PTP PPS)
• Modeling and controls in MATLAB/Simulink; experience building SIL/HIL simulators
• Environmental qualification testing experience (MIL-STD-810 MIL-STD-461) for electromechanical assemblies
• Experience troubleshooting remotely deployed software on fielded hardware

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience education and/or training critical skills and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:

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