# Mechanical Engineer, Roadrunner

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## About the Team

Roadrunner is part of Anduril's Air Dominance and Strike division. The Air Dominance and Strike Mechanical Engineering Team designs and integrates advanced hardware for high-speed air vehicles. They own the full development lifecycle, from concept generation to integration and flight test, ensuring high-performance, resilient, and scalable mechanical systems.

## What You'll Do

- You'll own designs from concept generation to real-world use, including avionics, mechanisms, thermal systems, fuel systems, and other general design tasks.

- You'll develop and integrate hardware on unmanned air vehicles.

- You'll use first-principles physics as a basis for every decision.

- You'll lead design reviews, run analysis, visit vendors, define and execute hardware test plans.

- You'll build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production.

- You'll support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed.

- You'll travel to test sites as needed.

- You'll support the design and analysis of composite structures, including the development of tooling essential for high-volume production.

## Required Qualifications

- You'll have a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related discipline.

- You'll have 5+ years of experience in mechanical engineering or related roles.

- You'll be proficient in designing mechanical parts using CAD software (Siemens NX preferred).

- You'll understand scalable manufacturing methods for composites, metal components, and plastics.

- You'll have strong technical knowledge in core engineering principles and first-principles physics.

- You'll be eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.

## Preferred Qualifications

- You'll have broad experience working across multiple mechanical engineering domains.

- You'll be able to adapt designs from metal components to composites, with a basic understanding of material trade-offs.

- You'll have knowledge of advanced manufacturing techniques for composites and plastics.

- You'll have hands-on experience with composites and tool design, including familiarity with out-of-autoclave fabrication methods.

- You'll have experience in thermal and structural analysis.

## Benefits

Anduril offers a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, including top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $129,000-$171,000 USD.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- CAD software (Siemens NX)
- scalable manufacturing methods
- first-principles physics
- U.S. Secret security clearance

### Nice to have
- multiple mechanical engineering domains
- composite materials
- advanced manufacturing techniques
- thermal and structural analysis

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