About this role
About the Role
Anduril is seeking Senior Motor Controls Engineers to develop motor control and actuator firmware across Anduril's fleet of autonomous vehicles on land, air, and sea. The role blends experience from tech and defense environments and is passionate about motor controls, firmware, and low-level development.
What You'll Do
- Develop motion control systems for applications such as precision actuators and electric propulsion
- Develop motor controls algorithms using Matlab / Simulink
- Develop motor models and integrate with SITL systems
- Integrate Simulink autocode algorithms with microcontroller C based RTOS and application
- Assist with part selection, board and product design
- Bring up new boards and toolchains
- Support device manufacturing efforts and operational deployments
What We're Looking For
- 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
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $191,000 - $253,000 USD per year
- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers; part of total compensation
- Comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees (health, recovery, and more). See Explore Our Benefits for details.