# Senior Structural Analyst, Space

**Company**: Anduril
**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's Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

As a Senior Structural Analyst, Space, you will support new space hardware programs from concept through launch. Responsibilities include:

- Quantifying and documenting load cases and environments

- Performing stress analysis to determine strength, life, and safety margins

- Developing computational models and simulations to predict dynamic environments, stress distribution, deformation, fracture, and fatigue life

- Collaborating with other hardware engineering disciplines and guiding design decisions based on analysis results

- Preparing technical reports and presenting findings to internal teams, management, and external customers

- Supporting design, instrumentation selection, execution, and data processing of tests to validate models and predictions

- Staying current with advancements in stress analysis techniques, materials technology, and industry standards

- Ensuring compliance with internal and external customer requirements, regulations, and safety standards

Requirements:

- BS or higher degree in engineering or applied physics with a focus in structures

- Deep understanding of statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, and materials properties

- Experience with CAD tools (NX, Solidworks, etc.)

- Proficiency in MATLAB or Python for developing analytical models, data acquisition, and automation

- Highly motivated, self-starting, and able to perform duties autonomously without supervision

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

Preferred qualifications:

- MS or higher degree in engineering or applied physics with a focus in structures

- 7+ years of experience in a structures, dynamics, or loads related role with high ownership and accountability for hardware outcomes

- Experienced using FEA software (ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN) with a focus in NASTRAN solution sequences

- Structural testing experience (static, dynamic, shock) including sensor selection, data acquisition, and data post-processing

- Knowledge of industry standards for materials and analysis and test methodologies

## Skills

### Required
- statics
- dynamics
- mechanics of materials
- materials properties
- CAD tools
- MATLAB
- Python
- stress analysis
- structural analysis

### Nice to have
- FEA software
- NASTRAN
- structural testing
- sensor selection
- data acquisition
- data post-processing

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