Anduril
Staff Thermal Engineer, Hypersonic Air Vehicles
$191K–$254K
Costa Mesa, California, United States · Staff · Full-time · Posted Jul 13, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years.
- Education
- MS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Applied Physics with focus on heat transfer and fluid dynamics.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
About the job
Designs and validates thermal systems for hypersonic and other unmanned air vehicles, from early design through ground and flight testing.
What you'll do
- Perform thermal design and analysis, including transient, CFD, FEA, and thermal-structural work.
- Plan, execute, and analyze ground and flight tests; use test data to inform designs.
- Collaborate across engineering teams and prepare technical documentation and review presentations.
What they ask for
- MS or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Applied Physics, focused on heat transfer and fluid dynamics.
- 15+ years of aerospace thermal engineering experience on rocket, aircraft, or missile programs.
- Experience with high-speed flight thermal analysis, CFD and/or FEA thermal solvers, thermal-structural coupling, and thermal-instrumented ground testing.
- Programming skills in MATLAB, Python, or similar; CAD experience with SolidWorks or Siemens NX; ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with material response modeling, specialized thermal test facilities, or flight testing.
- Experience with chemical kinetics, thermal-structural analysis codes, elevated-temperature material characterization, or thermal-system manufacturing and assembly.
Pay
$191,000 — $254,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
CFD, FEA, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Fluent, MATLAB, Python, SolidWorks, Siemens NX
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