Senior Mechatronics Engineer, OmenActive$194K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

The Maneuver Dominance team at Anduril develops operationally relevant, multi-asset autonomy. Omen is Anduril’s 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.

What you'll 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

What they're looking for

  • 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