# Senior Flight Sciences Engineer - Tactical Reconnaissance and Strike Division

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $191,000-$253,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/andurilindustries/jobs/5025312007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d6b4d6b5-d1f

## Description

This role will be responsible for guidance and control law development and validation, hardware and software in-the-loop test and analysis, and cutting-edge navigation solutions supporting the entire range of drones within TRS.

Aerodynamic Design & Analysis:

- Aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities

- Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low and high order methods, including analysis tool development and improvement as needed

- Conduct detailed analysis to predict and enhance aero performance

- Utilize Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools and low-order methods for performance evaluation

- Develop and maintain in-house suite of aerodynamic analysis tools

- Evaluate impacts of configuration changes on performance of the aircraft

Flight Simulation Development:

- Design, implement, and maintain high-fidelity flight simulation models

- Utilize simulation to evaluate aircraft performance and reliability

- Validate simulation accuracy against wind tunnel and flight test results

Testing:

- Work with Flight Test personnel to plan and execute tests to evaluate aircraft performance

- Plan and coordinate wind tunnel testing to gather aerodynamic data

- Analyze test data to identify performance trends and areas for improvement

- Utilize flight test data to identify system bugs and failures

- Prepare technical reports and briefings to communicate findings with stakeholders

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

- 8+ years applicable professional experience with airborne platforms

- Proven experience in aerodynamic design and analysis, flight simulation, and flight testing

- Extensive hands-on experience with CFD tools, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent simulation platforms

- Expert level programming and data analysis skills (MATLAB, C++, etc.)

- Strong understanding of aerodynamics and flight dynamics, stability, and control

- A passion for defending the Unites States of America and its allies

- US person status is required as this position requires access to export controlled information

Preferred Qualifications:

- PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field

- Experience with flight control design and analysis for fixed and rotary wing aircraft or missile systems

- C/C++ Expertise

- Experience with Simulink Embedded Coder

## Skills

### Required
- Aerodynamic design
- Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
- MATLAB
- Simulink
- C++
- Flight simulation
- Flight testing

### Nice to have
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering
- Flight control design and analysis
- Simulink Embedded Coder