Senior Mechatronics Engineer

ABOUT THE TEAM

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.

ABOUT THE JOB

We need a Mechatronics Engineer based in Abu Dhabi to support integration of electromechanical actuation sensing and control subsystems that enable Omens hover-to-cruise transition and to support the integration of Omen sensor and payload modules. You will be partnering closely with our Costa Mesa engineering team and regional manufacturing and test partners.

WHAT YOULL DO

• Bridge the mission system team and air vehicle 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.
• Interface with regional customers and partners to align and deliver on end-user requirements.
• 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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
• Basic proficiency in scripting or programming (e.g. Python MATLAB C Bash or Rust) to automate testing collect data or interface with onboard software.
• Proficiency across a meaningful portion of the robotics stack from sensor interfacing to actuation.
• 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; e.g. 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%

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• VTOL tail-sitter or rotorcraft experience and familiarity with the payload environment they create (vibration EMI rotor wash)
• 3 years of Rust (or C) in a Linux environment plus tooling in Python; demonstrated experience developing software for hardware
• 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
• Experience troubleshooting remotely deployed software on fielded hardware
• 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

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Senior IC

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1