Senior Aerodynamics Engineer

3w3 weeks ago

Anduril

Costa Mesa, US · Full-time · $191,000 – $253,000

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 drones in the Tactical Recon & Strike division.

Perform aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities. Conduct analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low and high-order methods, including tool development. Generate loads, model performance, and support wind tunnel and flight testing.

The GNC and Aerodynamics team within TRS implements, analyzes, tests, and validates GNC software for the autonomous drone fleet. Applications include attitude control, waypoint guidance, and navigation in GPS-denied environments. Partner closely with specialist engineering, operations, and production teams on products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt, and Altius.

Build highly capable autonomous drones and solid rocket motors at scale using advanced materials and high-volume production. Contribute to reliable propulsion and robotics in demanding mission environments. Deliver 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

Perform aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities
Conduct aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low and high-order methods, including analysis tool development and improvement
Analyze stability and control and/or rotorcraft flight dynamics
Develop aircraft and/or performance modeling and simulation
Generate aerodynamic loads
Plan, execute, and analyze wind tunnel tests
Plan, execute, and analyze flight tests