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Senior Motor Controls Engineer

Anduril · Costa Mesa, California, United States · Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)

Defenseonsitesenior$191k–$253k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Develop motion control for precision actuators and electric propulsion.
  • Build motor firmware for autonomous vehicles on land, air, and sea.
  • Power fleet with AI-driven Lattice OS for realtime command and control.

What they offer

  • Highly competitive equity grants
  • Comprehensive benefits at little to no cost

Ideal candidate

Passionate controls engineer blending tech and defense experience who loves low-level firmware and precision motion. Thrives bringing up hardware and deploying autonomy for land, air, and sea vehicles.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc., or equivalent experience
  • Experience and formal training with classical control systems
  • Experience with Matlab and Simulink
  • Experience with motor control circuits and peripherals, such as drivers, encoders, and Hall sensors
  • Background in low-level firmware architecture, design and development in C
  • Experience with embedded ARM and motor control modules within ARM microcontrollers
  • Comfortable with typical embedded systems tools, compilers, debuggers and IDEs
  • Broad experience with microcontrollers, application processors, revision control systems
  • Familiarity with common bus protocols such as SPI, I2C, CAN, RS485, etc.
  • Strong debugging skills through use of instrumentation such as oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers
  • Application experience in areas such as robotics, automation, motor control, and sensor fusion
  • U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

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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