# Aerodynamics Engineer, Air Vehicles

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,000-$194,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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

The Air Dominance and Strike Aerodynamics Engineering Team is responsible for the advanced aerodynamic design and analysis for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms.

Responsibilities:

- Aerodynamic design of unmanned air vehicles/missiles at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities

- Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low and high order methods

- Analysis tool development and improvement as needed

- Stability and control analysis

- Aircraft performance modeling and simulation

- Aerodynamic loads generation

- Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis

- Flight test planning, execution, and analysis

Requirements:

- BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering

- 3+ work experience as an individual contributing engineer

- Experience with aircraft performance and analysis predictions

- Competent in a variety of aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, vortex, lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

- Wind tunnel and flight test experience including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination

- Strong programming skills in higher-level languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python) for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment

- Experience preparing formal documentation

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

- StarCCM+ experience

- Ice accretion or icing analysis experience

- Missile DATCOM, OTIS, or DYMOS

- Experience with transonic and supersonic flow regimes

- Active U.S. Secret security clearance

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

## Skills

### Required
- Aerospace Engineering
- Aerodynamic analysis
- Aircraft performance modeling
- Programming skills in MATLAB or Python
- Wind tunnel and flight test experience
- Data acquisition and analysis

### Nice to have
- StarCCM+
- Ice accretion or icing analysis
- Missile DATCOM, OTIS, or DYMOS
- Transonic and supersonic flow regimes

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