# Materials Engineer, Design Allowables & Materials Data

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000-$175,000 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.

As a Materials Engineer, Design Allowables & Materials Data, you will own the enterprise materials database, building it, filling it, governing it, and making it the place Anduril's design values come from.

## Responsibilities

- Build the Materials Database: Own the materials database end to end , data model and schema, units and provenance, revision control, access, and release.

- Own the Design Allowables Standard: Define and own how test data becomes a defensible design value across Anduril’s business lines.

- Establish Fatigue and Fracture-Critical Methodology: Define and implement a standardized approach to fatigue-life assessment and damage tolerance.

- Extract Value from Lifecycle Material Data: Capture the material property and certification data generated across our supply chain into the database.

- Serve as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority: Be the subject-matter expert for materials allowables and data across the portfolio.

## Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field

- 2+ years of materials and process engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or a comparably rigorous domain

- Expertise in materials characterization and design allowables development, including statistical basis (e.g., MMPDS / CMH-17-style methods)

- Experience building or owning a materials data system , schema or data model design, ingest from test and supplier sources, units and provenance handling, revision control, and traceability from design value back to specimen

- Experience with material qualification and characterization: mechanical and thermal testing, and translating results into usable design values

- Proven ability to set a technical standard and drive adoption across teams

- Strong technical writing,your methodology and specifications are clear, unambiguous, and actionable

- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive progress independently in a fast-paced environment

- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

## Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field

- Direct experience with building a materials database for aerospace, propulsion, or defense applications

- 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, especially for fracture-critical or damage-tolerant components

- Experience with materials data management / materials informatics platforms and partnering with software/data teams to build data pipelines

- Direct experience with advanced or non-standard materials,high-temperature alloys, advanced composites, or additively-manufactured materials

- Experience integrating or standardizing materials data across disparate or legacy sources

## Benefits

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive and competitive benefits packages.

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## Skills

### Required
- Materials Science
- Materials Engineering
- Metallurgy
- materials characterization
- design allowables development
- statistical basis
- MMPDS
- CMH-17-style methods
- materials data system
- schema or data model design
- material qualification and characterization
- mechanical and thermal testing

### Nice to have
- Master’s degree in Materials Science
- Direct experience with building a materials database
- Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance
- Hands-on experience with scoping and executing a characterization campaign
- Background in fatigue and fracture mechanics
- Experience with materials data management / materials informatics platforms

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