# Materials and Process Engineer, Air Dominance and Strike

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $101,000-$135,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Defence & Intelligence

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## Description

The Air Dominance and Strike Aerostructures Engineering Team designs and analyzes advanced structural parts for Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms. As the Materials and Process (M&P) engineer on this team, you'll own the materials and process side of that work: selecting materials, executing processes, and qualifying the metallic and composite hardware that our structures engineers design.

**Material & Process Ownership**

- Select materials and ensure compliance for primary and secondary structural parts (metallic and composite)

- Execute established processes for bonding, surface prep, coatings, fastening, and composite layup on airframe hardware

- Contribute to structural trade studies by evaluating material and process choices against weight, performance, manufacturability, cost, and schedule

- Apply design-for-manufacturing thinking to ensure structural solutions are producible at rate

**Standards, Documentation & Vendor Interface**

- Contribute to material and process standards, approved materials lists, and common procedures

- Author sections of technical documentation such as specifications, procedures, test reports, and vendor requirements

- Support review of vendor and subcontractor build records for materials and process compliance

**Testing & Characterization**

- Design and run testing to characterize materials and process performance

- Coordinate with internal and external test labs on characterization and failure analysis

- Analyze test data, draw engineering conclusions, and communicate them clearly

**Manufacturing & Integration Support**

- Provide onsite engineering support at manufacturing and integration sites

- Support failure reviews and root cause investigations

**Required Qualifications**

- B.S. in Materials Science, Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemistry, or related field

- 2+ years of experience in aerospace, defense, or a related industry

- Foundational knowledge of materials science and structural engineering principles

- Familiarity with manufacturing processes relevant to airframe hardware

- Strong time management, organizational, and communication skills

- Ability to obtain and maintain a US DoD Secret Clearance or higher

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Hands-on shop skills

- Familiarity with structural testing methods and experimentation

- Coursework or project experience in composites design, fabrication, or testing

- Exposure to Siemens NX or similar CAD

- Experience with fast-paced prototype fabrication

- Coursework or exposure to high-temperature materials selection

- Familiarity with material characterization techniques

- Practical aircraft knowledge

The salary range for this role is $101,000-$135,000 USD. Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees.

## Skills

### Required
- materials science
- structural engineering
- manufacturing processes
- bonding
- surface prep
- coatings
- fastening
- composite layup
- design-for-manufacturing

### Nice to have
- hands-on shop skills
- structural testing methods
- composites design
- Siemens NX
- prototype fabrication
- high-temperature materials selection
- material characterization techniques

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