# Stress Analysis Engineer, Maritime Structures

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Santa Ana, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 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.

We are looking for a Stress Analysis Engineer to join our rapidly growing team in Santa Ana, CA to lead stress analysis, materials characterization, and design allowables development for mission-critical maritime and subsea hardware.

## Responsibilities

- Perform classical hand calculations and advanced Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on complex maritime pressure boundaries, structural enclosures, and mechanism assemblies.

- Define, build, and maintain statistical structural design allowables across primary metallic and composite materials.

- Serve as the custodian of the centralized allowables database across engineering teams.

- Act as the primary analysis interface to Materials & Processes (M&P) and Manufacturing Engineering.

- Account for manufacturing-induced effects in structural assessments.

- Drive structural test programs from coupon-level mechanical testing to full-scale subcomponent qualification.

## Requirements

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Structural Engineering, Materials Science, or a related technical discipline.

- 4+ years (Mid) or 7+ years (Senior) of demonstrated experience in structural stress analysis on high-consequence hardware.

- Deep proficiency in both classical hand calculations and commercial FEA tools.

- Practical experience developing design allowables using statistical methods.

- Strong understanding of heavy metallic fabrication processes and their influence on fatigue life and structural margins.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior experience with maritime, subsea, or pressure-vessel structural design.

- Working knowledge of fatigue and fracture mechanics software.

- Hands-on experience coordinating with external mechanical and environmental testing laboratories.

- Familiarity with modern CAD platforms and automated scripting for analysis post-processing.

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Structural Engineering
- Materials Science
- Finite Element Analysis (FEA)
- classical hand calculations
- statistical methods
- metallurgy
- materials characterization
- design allowables development

### Nice to have
- maritime structural design
- subsea structural design
- pressure-vessel structural design
- fatigue and fracture mechanics software
- CAD platforms
- automated scripting

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