# Senior Materials and Process Engineer, Space

**Company**: Anduril
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $132,000-$198,000 USD
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Anduril's Space team is dedicated to expanding AI-powered capabilities into space, enhancing Space Domain Awareness, Space Control, and Command and Control for U.S. military and allied partners.

The Senior Materials and Process Engineer, Space will play a crucial role in developing and implementing standards, testing, and characterizing materials for space hardware.

**Responsibilities:**

### Standards Development & Implementation

- Maintain material and process standards, including banned/approved materials lists, common material coatings, and corrosion prevention requirements.

- Develop and advance hardware design standards and common parts libraries.

- Support comprehensive technical documentation.

### Testing & Characterization

- Design and conduct testing to establish materials performance properties.

- Manage relationships with internal and external test laboratories.

- Accelerate material evaluation, implementation, and qualification.

### Contamination Control

- Develop and manage contamination budgets across multiple space programs.

- Implement and monitor contamination controls in assembly, integration, and test environments.

- Establish contamination monitoring protocols and cleanliness verification procedures.

### EEE Parts & PCBA Process Oversight

- Develop and maintain EEE parts selection and qualification requirements.

- Define PCBA process specifications.

- Evaluate tin whisker and lead-free solder risks.

### Material Selection and Design Support

- Collaborate with design engineers to select materials for spacecraft components.

- Conduct material trade studies.

### Cross-Program Leadership

- Prioritize efforts across multiple programs based on technical risk and schedule impact.

- Identify recurring issues and implement scalable solutions.

- Support failure reviews and root cause investigations.

**Requirements:**

- BS in Materials Science, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or related field.

- 3+ years of hands-on experience with space hardware materials and processes.

- Familiarity with space industry standards.

- Proven experience establishing technical standards.

- Strong foundation in materials science principles.

- Demonstrated ability to design experiments and draw defensible engineering conclusions.

- Self-directed work style.

- U.S. citizenship required.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Knowledge of manufacturing processes.

- Experience with contamination control and/or EEE parts selection and PCBA materials.

- Familiarity with cleanroom classification levels and operations.

- Experience with outgassing characterization.

- Experience with EEE parts qualification and destructive physical analysis.

- Knowledge of manufacturing processes.

- Experience with conformal coating selection and application processes.

- Prior electronic failure analysis experience.

- Experience with contamination modeling tools.

- Proficiency in interpreting data from different material characterization techniques.

- Understanding of space environment effects.

- Experience in adjacent high-reliability industries.

**Salary Range:** $132,000-$198,000 USD

## Skills

### Required
- Materials Science
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Space Industry Standards
- Technical Documentation
- Experiment Design
- Data Analysis

### Nice to have
- Manufacturing Processes
- Contamination Control
- EEE Parts Selection
- PCBA Materials
- Cleanroom Operations
- Outgassing Characterization
- EEE Parts Qualification
- Failure Analysis
- Conformal Coating
- Contamination Modeling
- Material Characterization Techniques
- Space Environment Effects

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