Senior Aerodynamics Engineer

2w2 weeks ago

Anduril

Atlanta, US · Full-time · $165,000 – $218,000

About this role

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company transforming U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system creating realtime 3D command and control. The Senior Aerodynamics Engineer supports autonomous drone development in the Tactical Recon & Strike division.

The role involves aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms across conceptual, preliminary, and detail stages. Conduct analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low and high-order methods, including tool development. Perform stability, control, performance modeling, loads generation, and test planning for wind tunnels and flights.

The GNC and Aerodynamics team within TRS handles implementation, analysis, test, and validation for GNC software solutions supporting the autonomous drone fleet. Applications cover attitude control, waypoint guidance, and navigation in contested, GPS-denied environments. Teams partner with specialists to transform concepts like Ghost, Anvil into operational capabilities.

TRS also builds solid rocket motors at scale using advanced materials and high-volume production. Contribute to reliable propulsion and robotics systems for demanding missions. Anduril delivers cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking to the military in months, not years.

Requirements

BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering
8+ years work experience as an individual contributing engineer
Experience with aircraft and/or rotorcraft performance and analysis predictions
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

Responsibilities

Aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities
Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low and high order methods, including analysis tool development and improvement
Stability and control and/or rotorcraft flight dynamics analysis
Aircraft and/or performance modeling and simulation
Aerodynamic loads generation
Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis
Flight test planning, execution, and analysis