Motor Controls Engineer (Electrical/PCB Design)
Anduril Industries · Costa Mesa, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 87 days Anduril Industries's roles stay open a median of 87 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 1% of Anduril Industries's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Anduril Industries
- high 2263 stale, 67 reposted of 2,263 open
- Hiring momentum
- 3233 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-29
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Anduril Industries's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Anduril Industries.
About this role
As a Motor Controls Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will focus on the development of complex electro-mechanical systems, including optical systems and control systems. The role involves hands-on prototyping, managing vendor relationships, and leading design reviews while utilizing first principles physics for decision-making. You will also support hardware demonstrations and may travel to test sites as needed.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Anduril Industries as an employer.
What you need
- Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings)
- Demonstrated leadership skills (collegiate project teams or professional settings)
- 3+ years of electrical/design experience in a professional setting
- Experience in PCB design and any ECAD (Altium, KiCAD, etc)
- Hands-on prototyping (soldering, board assembly, harnessing)
- Experience with any: controls/actuation, robotics, and or motor/servo drive systems (BLDC/brushed motor controller design and servo control systems)
Nice to have
- Experience in bare metal microcontroller design (STMicro, TI, NXP, etc) from schematic to bringup
- Outstanding leadership and interpersonal skills
- Familiarity with designing for rugged environments
- Experience in bringing up device trees on embedded systems with a variety of connected sensors
- Experience with Electro-Mechanical and Electrical design concepts
What you get
- Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
- Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Worth weighing
- No specific technologies or tools mentioned beyond PCB design and microcontrollers, which may indicate a lack of clarity on the tech stack
- High level of autonomy may require strong self-management skills
- Travel to test sites may be required, which could impact work-life balance
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Listed by Anduril Industries on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-29. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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