Senior Electrical Harness Design Engineer
Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)
Defenseonsitesenior$161k–$212k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and integrate harness systems powering advanced autonomous defense platforms.
- Bring cutting-edge autonomy and AI to military systems in months, not years.
- Support new developments, active deployments, and customer-operated hardware.
What they offer
- Highly competitive equity grants
Ideal candidate
A highly organized, hands-on engineer who thrives in fast-paced defense programs and cares about delivering high-reliability hardware from design through deployment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent
- 8+ years hands-on experience designing electrical harnessing for rugged commercial, industrial, aerospace, or military applications
- Experience working directly with harness manufacturers to deliver high quality, high reliability products
- Own end-to-end of the electrical wiring and interconnect system, including power distribution, grounding, shielding, and signal integrity
- Ensure the design meets system-level electrical requirements for voltage, current, bandwidth, redundancy, EMI/EMC
- Perform electrical trade studies for wire gauge, shielding, connector selection, and topology
- Analyze and mitigate electrical risks such as voltage drop, crosstalk, EMI susceptibility, and thermal effects
- Familiarity with common electrical bus interfaces (CAN, Ethernet, RS422, RS232, 1553)
- Familiar with existing applicable harness standards as well as MIL-STD requirements
- Able to apply knowledge of SWaP for power, network and communications systems and designs
- Experience reading wire block interconnect diagrams and wire diagrams
- Exceptional organization and communication skills (both written and oral)
- Must be eligible to receive a US Security Clearance
Lab profile
About Anduril
Defense technology company building autonomous systems for military missions.
What they build
- Lattice OS
- Ghost
- Anvil
Known for
- Autonomous defense systems
- AI-powered command and control
- Rapid hardware-software iteration
Key facts
- Founded in 2017
- Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California
- Backed by Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz
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