# Senior Aerodynamicist, Omen

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Melbourne, Victoria
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $166,000-$292,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Aerodynamicist to join the Omen team in Melbourne, Australia.

The Omen is Anduril's hover-to-cruise autonomous air vehicle (AAV) that packs endurance, payload, and mission flexibility into a novel runway-independent Group 3 platform.

As an Aerodynamicist on the Maneuver Dominance Team, you will design unmanned vehicles intended to revolutionize the aerospace field. You will be engaged in the full development lifecycle, possessing strong programming and analytical skills with a focus on aerodynamic design, analysis, and testing.

Responsibilities:

- Aerodynamic design of unmanned air vehicles/missiles 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

- Stability and control analysis

- Aircraft performance modeling and simulation

- Aerodynamic loads generation

- Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis

- Flight test planning, execution, and analysis

Requirements:

- High-ownership and a bias toward action

- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineer, Robotics, Physics, or related technical discipline

- 8-10+ years of work experience as an individual contributing engineer in a high-impact, start-up environment

- Experience with aircraft performance, analysis predictions, and Stability & Control

- Competent in various aerodynamic analysis techniques, including hand calculations, vortex, lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

- Wind tunnel and flight test experience, including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination

- Strong programming skills in higher-level languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python) for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment

- Experience preparing formal documentation

- Experience in engineering team leadership and project execution for aerospace, automotive, or defense sectors

- Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (US applicant) or NV-1 AUS security clearance (AUS applicant)

Preferred Qualifications:

- StarCCM+ and/or Flow360 experience

- Experience with subsonic, transonic, and supersonic flow regimes

- Active U.S. Secret security clearance (US applicant), or active NV-1 security clearance (AUS applicant)

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

Salary Range: $166,000-$292,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Aerodynamic design
- Analytical skills
- Programming skills
- Aerospace Engineering
- Mechanical Engineer
- Robotics
- Physics
- Stability & Control analysis
- Aircraft performance modeling
- Simulation
- Wind tunnel testing
- Flight test planning

### Nice to have
- StarCCM+
- Flow360
- Subsonic flow regimes
- Transonic flow regimes
- Supersonic flow regimes

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