Anduril
Senior Flight Performance Engineer, Air Vehicles
$166K–$220K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 3, 2025
- Experience
- 8+ years work experience as an individual contributing engineer.
- Education
- BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering.
About the job
Performs aerodynamic analysis and flight-performance engineering for unmanned air vehicles and missiles, supporting flight testing and aircraft modeling.
What you'll do
- Analyze aerodynamics, stability and control, aircraft performance, and aerodynamic loads.
- Support flight-test planning, execution, and analysis.
- Develop and improve analysis tools and aircraft performance models and simulations.
What they ask for
- BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering.
- Ability to travel as required for testing; test experience including data acquisition, data analysis, and project coordination.
- Flight test param-id (parameter identification) for aerodynamic modeling and experience with aircraft performance analysis and predictions.
- Competence in aerodynamic analysis methods; programming skills in higher-level languages in a version-controlled environment; formal documentation experience; ability to possess and maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with transonic and supersonic flow regimes.
Pay
$166,000 — $220,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
MATLAB, Python, vortex lattice methods, panel methods, computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
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