Anduril
Aerodynamics Engineer, Air Vehicles
$146K–$194K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Dec 8, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ work experience as an individual contributing engineer.
- Education
- BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering.
About the job
Designs and analyzes aerodynamics for unmanned air vehicles and missile platforms across development, testing, and flight analysis.
What you'll do
- Conduct aerodynamic design and analysis, including stability and control, performance modeling, and aerodynamic loads generation.
- Plan, execute, and analyze wind tunnel and flight tests.
- Develop and improve analysis tools and prepare aircraft performance simulations.
What they ask for
- BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering.
- 3+ work experience as an individual contributing engineer.
- Experience with aircraft performance and analysis predictions; aerodynamic methods including hand calculations, vortex, lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
- Wind tunnel and flight test experience; programming skills in higher-level languages such as MATLAB or Python; formal documentation experience; eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- StarCCM+ experience; ice accretion or icing analysis experience.
- Missile DATCOM, OTIS, or DYMOS; experience with transonic and supersonic flow regimes; active U.S. Secret security clearance.
Pay
$146,000 — $194,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, Python, StarCCM+, Missile DATCOM, OTIS, DYMOS
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