Instrumentation Engineer, Omen
$146,000–$208,000 year
On-site · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Job Summary
Instrumentation Engineer sought for Anduril’s Omen team in Costa Mesa, leading the design, integration, and test instrumentation for a Group 3 autonomous air vehicle. Responsibilities include building end-to-end physical and electrical data measurement systems, configuring test racks and harnesses, instrumenting HIL/HITL/IRON BIRD environments, supporting ground and flight test instrumentation and telemetry, contributing to TRRs, and ensuring safety and configuration control across fixed and flying integration environments. Candidates should have a bachelor’s or higher in a relevant engineering field, 8+ years in test instrumentation and telemetry, proficiency with sensors and data acquisition/processing tools (e.g., NI DAQ, LabVIEW, CAN/Ethernet/Serial), and the ability to obtain security clearance. The role emphasizes hands-on design, rapid iteration, and collaboration within a defense-focused, safety-conscious culture.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor degree or higher in Mechanical, Electrical, Mechatronics, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline
- 8+ years experience in integration, test, test instrumentation and telemetry
- Experience in designing, building, and operating robust instrumentation systems for realtime and post-test observation of loads, temperatures, pressures, software messages, accelerations, in ground and flight test environments. Experience with instrumenting and operating HIL/HITL/IRON BIRD environments an advantage
- Vehicle/System level flight test instrumentation experience with Group 3 or larger uncrewed and autonomous platforms
- Familiarity at instrumenting and working safely with high voltage/power systems
- Practiced in specifying, selecting, installing and calibrating a wide range of sensors including strain gauges, string potentiometers, Hall Effect sensors, thermocouples as well as operating non-contact measurement systems
- Extensive knowledge of electronics/communications/integration troubleshooting and ability to use identify and operate appropriate diagnostics instruments (oscilloscopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers etc). Experienced in debug of common protocols such as CAN/Ethernet/Serial
- Competence with I/O signal converters, data acquisition and logging systems (NI DAQ, C-W Acra etc), telemetry radios (C-W MATS etc), and visualization/processing tools and software (such as NI LabVIEW, C-W IADS, Grafana, Nominal, Flexlogger, Canapy etc)
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, excellent verbal & written communication skills (effective for broad audiences)
- A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States, United Kingdom, or Australia
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