Electrical Engineering Manager, Air Dominance and Strike

Employer description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Air Dominance and Strike (AD&S) Electrical Engineering Team is responsible for delivering high-reliability avionics, embedded processing, and power distribution systems for Group 5 air vehicles and next-generation missile platforms. Operating at the intersection of hardware, software, and mission autonomy, the team builds flight-critical electronics that enable autonomous air systems to prevail in contested environments.

ABOUT THE JOB
We are looking for an Electrical Engineering Manager to lead and scale our rapidly growing AD&S hardware team in Costa Mesa, CA. In this role, your primary mission is to build, mentor, and guide a world-class team of electrical engineers while driving the operational and technical cadence needed to field critical air platforms.
You will transition high-level mission and program requirements into actionable engineering roadmaps, establish best-in-class hardware development processes, and remove roadblocks so your team can move fast without compromising reliability. While you should possess the technical depth to conduct architectural reviews and challenge design decisions, your focus will be on people leadership, resource strategy, engineering rigor, and execution.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead, Grow, and Mentor: Directly manage a high-performing team of electrical engineers. Drive career development, conduct performance reviews, recruit top-tier hardware talent, and foster an engineering culture of extreme ownership, speed, and technical excellence.
• Drive Execution & Delivery: Partner with Program Managers, Chief Engineers, and vehicle line leads to balance resource allocation, scope, budget, and schedule across multiple concurrent aircraft programs.
• Establish Engineering Rigor & Process: Define and mature standard operating procedures for the entire hardware lifecycle, from schematic capture and board bring-up to Design Verification (DVT), qualification (QTP), and flight clearance.
• Provide Technical Oversight: Serve as the senior technical authority for avionics hardware. Lead design reviews, ensure cross-subsystem compatibility, and maintain standards for reliability, fault tolerance, and manufacturability without getting bogged down in day-to-day layout.
• Unblock & Enable Cross-Functional Velocity: Act as the primary interface between your team and adjacent disciplines, including Flight Software, Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC), Mechanical/Thermal, Systems Engineering, and Integration & Test.
• Vendor & Supply Chain Strategy: Oversee strategic relationships with board fabrication, assembly, and component vendors, ensuring manufacturing readiness, cost efficiency, and risk mitigation against supply-chain volatility.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated Leadership: 4+ years of formal people-management or proven technical team leadership experience, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and scaling engineering talent.
• Technical Foundation: Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering (or related discipline) with 7+ years of industry experience in hardware development, ideally within aerospace, defense, automotive, or high-reliability robotics.
• Program & Execution Acumen: Proven ability to manage competing priorities, allocate headcount, interface with executive stakeholders, and deliver complex hardware milestones on compressed timelines.
• Architecture-Level Fluency: Deep enough technical grounding to guide reviews across modern analog/digital circuits, power architectures, high-speed interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, CAN), and processing systems (MCUs, FPGAs, CPUs).
• Process Leadership: Experience defining or evolving hardware test frameworks, qualification standards, and design-for-manufacturing (DFM) best practices.
• Security Clearance: Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

 

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience managing engineering teams in a rapid-prototyping, fast-paced startup or defense-tech environment.
• Prior experience navigating military and aviation compliance frameworks (e.g., DO-254, DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704, MIL-STD-461).
• Experience managing harness/interconnect engineering and system-level vehicle integration.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
• Experience with RCC-319 and Flight Termination System

US Salary Range$161,000—$212,000 USD

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 Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: 

 

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.

 

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