Anduril
Senior Aerodynamics Engineer, Air Vehicles
$166K–$220K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jan 21, 2025
- Experience
- 8+ 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 missiles, supporting development from early design through wind tunnel and flight testing.
What you'll do
- Perform aerodynamic design, analysis, stability and control analysis, and aircraft performance modeling.
- Develop or improve aerodynamic analysis tools and generate aerodynamic loads.
- Plan, execute, and analyze wind tunnel and flight tests.
What they ask for
- BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering.
- Experience with aircraft performance and analysis predictions and a variety of aerodynamic techniques, including hand calculations, vortex and lattice methods, panel methods, and CFD.
- Wind tunnel and flight test experience, including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination.
- Strong programming skills in higher-level languages such as MATLAB or Python; experience preparing formal technical documentation; 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
$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, Python, StarCCM+, Missile DATCOM, OTIS, DYMOS, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
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