Staff Materials Engineer, Design Allowables & Materials Data

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

Anduril's Materials Engineering team is seeking a Senior Materials and Process Engineer with a background in structural composites and bonded structures to join our rapidly growing team.

The successful candidate will own the Design Allowables Standard, define and own how test data becomes a defensible design value across Anduril's business lines, and build the Materials Data Pipeline.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Design Allowables Standard
• Build the Materials Data Pipeline
• Turn Testing into a Strategic Workflow
• Establish Fatigue and Fracture-Critical Methodology
• Extract Value from Lifecycle Material Data
• Serve as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority
• Seed the Function

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field
• 8+ years of materials and process engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or a comparably rigorous domain
• Deep expertise in materials characterization and design allowables development
• Demonstrated experience turning test data into governed, analysis-ready datasets
• Experience with material qualification and characterization
• Proven ability to set a technical standard and drive adoption across teams

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance
• Hands-on experience with scoping and executing a characterization campaign from scratch
• Background in fatigue and fracture mechanics
• Experience with materials data management / materials informatics platforms
• Direct experience with advanced or non-standard materials