Senior Thermal Engineer

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer to join their Rocket Motor Systems group. The successful candidate will conduct detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.

Responsibilities:

• Perform detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.
• Size internal insulation, external thermal protection systems, and structural insulators.
• Validate models with test data; develop predictive ablation and erosion models.
• Define sub-scale tests for characterizing material properties of insulators and ablators.
• Evaluate and recommend ablative materials and thermal protection system solutions for applications in solid rocket motors.
• Create reports and presentations documenting analysis and other supporting work.
• Present to peers and customers in design reviews.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Working knowledge of fundamental heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics first principles.
• Prior experience operating CAD software and/or FEA software.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to travel to other Anduril sites, customer sites, or supplier sites as business demand dictates.
• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (master's or doctorate) in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar with a focus on ablation modeling, computational combustion, or reacting flows.
• Experience with Abaqus FEA software.
• Expertise in engineering tool development in Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, and/or Python.
• Expertise with thermochemical ablation and material response analysis, with an emphasis on ablation in solid rocket motors and/or reentry systems.
• Expertise with ablation modeling tools, such as Hero, CHAR, PATO or similar, and surface chemistry tools, such as ACE or Mutation++.

Benefits:

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Income protection: life and disability insurance.
• Generous time off: highly competitive PTO plans.
• Family planning and parenting support.
• Mental health resources.
• Professional development: annual reimbursement.
• Commuter benefits.
• Relocation assistance.
• Retirement savings plan.