Senior Aerodynamicist, Omen

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.

You will work as a Senior Aerodynamicist on the Omen team, designing unmanned vehicles intended to revolutionize the aerospace field.

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 a variety of 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 with focus on electric or hybrid propulsion
• 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 a comprehensive, competitive benefits package.