# Warhead Design Engineer - Modeling & Simulation

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Costa Mesa, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,000-$171,000 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.

The Lethality team is responsible for the design, analysis, testing, and transition to production of advanced warhead and ordnance systems across multiple platforms.

We are looking for a Warhead Design Engineer , Modeling & Simulation to join the team in Costa Mesa, CA. This role uses academic literature, empirical data, first-principles reasoning, and computational modeling to help steer warhead design and related ordnance decisions from concept maturity through testing and toward production readiness.

**Responsibilities**

- Leverage academic studies and literature, empirical data, and simulation to steer the design of warheads and missile/ordnance systems from concept design maturity to production.

- Analyze lethality and performance using hand-calculations and multi-physics modeling and simulation tools.

- Create pre-test predictions and correlate models with test data.

- Manage arena and system testing of munitions products from end-to-end.

- Capture test video, compile data from ground and flight tests, and analyze results.

- Assemble/disassemble explosive test articles and precision targets.

**Individual Impact**

- Directly influence how Anduril designs, evaluates, and matures advanced warhead systems.

- Help the team absorb growing analysis demand across multiple active programs.

- Make better engineering decisions earlier in the development cycle.

- Reduce avoidable physical testing through smarter simulation and planning.

**Requirements**

- BS or higher degree in mechanical, aerospace, explosives, or another engineering discipline.

- 2-10 years’ work experience as an individual contributing engineer, focused on mechanical design, analysis, and testing of warheads or ordnance systems.

- Experience using multi-physics modeling and simulation tools.

- Test experience including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination.

- Ability to travel as required for testing.

- Experience preparing engineering documentation.

- Passion for defending the United States and her allies.

- Be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Active U.S. security clearance.

- Expert level experience with multi-physics modeling and simulation tools.

- Experience with munitions testing.

- Experience with CAD design tools.

**Salary and Benefits**

- The salary range for this role is $129,000-$171,000 USD.

- Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers.

- Top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, income protection, generous time off, family planning and parenting support, mental health resources, professional development, commuter benefits, relocation assistance, and retirement savings plans.

## Skills

### Required
- multi-physics modeling
- simulation tools
- mechanical design
- analysis
- testing
- warheads
- ordnance systems
- data acquisition
- data analysis
- project coordination
- engineering documentation

### Nice to have
- Active U.S. security clearance
- Expert level experience with multi-physics modeling and simulation tools
- Experience with munitions testing
- Experience with CAD design tools

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