2026 Early Career Firmware Engineer
Job Location:
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
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Job Summary
Anduril is seeking an Early Career Firmware Engineer (2026) to join our team based in Costa Mesa CA. The Firmware team at Anduril develops core technology used across multiple products such as as Menace Dive-XL Ghost and Roadrunner. We work in close coordination with Electrical Engineering to develop hardware and software solutions to some of the hardest problems facing our customers. Youll contribute low level firmware development for systems operating on land sea and air.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Develop low-level firmware/software for microcontrollers
- Create reusable device drivers and integrate system-level features
- Architect changes to support an ever-growing codebase
- Quickly debug and troubleshoot issues that span the electrical firmware and software boundaries
- Collaborate and review schematics with the electrical engineering team
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Must be pursuing or have completed a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Computer/Software Engineering Mathematics Physics or a related field.
- 3 months - 2 years of technical work to include technical internship and able to start full time in 2026.
- Experience coding in C for embedded systems
- Familiarity with microcontrollers with analog and digital sensors
- Knowledge developing firmware in bare-metal or RTOS environments
- Understanding and application of coding best practices board bring up and debugging
- Some familiarity with common bus protocols such as USB SPI I2C CAN RS232 RS485 Ethernet etc.
- U.S. Persons status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience with one or more microcontroller cores (ARM AVR MSP430 PIC etc.)
- Debugging skills with JTAG SWD Oscilloscopes and Logic analyzers
- Have a bias for action. If you see a problem you want to solve and fix it
- Be naturally curious about the technologies and tools you use
- Low-ego high ownership and mission oriented.
US Salary Range
$112000 - $149000 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 Andurils total compensation package. Additionally Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees including:
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