Senior Mechanical Engineer

Slope; Sydney; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Australia is seeking Mechanical Engineers to design and deliver unmanned systems for subsurface domains, including the XL-AUV program. You will own mechanical design from concept to deployment, performing simulations, analyses, and validation while ensuring compliance with maritime standards.

The role requires collaboration across engineering teams, mentoring junior engineers, and travel up to 20% to co-locate with end-users and partners. An Australian Security Clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field.
• Experience working on complex mechanical systems across design, implementation, operation and sustainment.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Create detailed plans and specifications for new designs or derivatives of XL-AUVs.
• Develop mechanical designs, prototypes and build of complex structures and mechanisms.
• Perform simulation and analysis of mechanical designs including modal/spectral response analysis.
• Ensure designs meet maritime standards and regulations.
• Partner with stakeholders and multiple disciplines to deliver reusable components across product lines.

Skills

System architecture

Cross-domain collaboration

Stakeholder engagement

Security clearance eligibility

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or related field

Tools

NX

FEMAP

Teamcenter

FEA

CAD

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

At Anduril Australia we are developing unmanned systems for subsurface and other domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of long endurance, multi-mission capability to our customers. These projects, including but not limited to the Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicle (XL-AUV) Program, require Mechanical Engineers with broad experience to drive the delivery a variety of software enabled hardware capabilities to our customers. Anduril Mechanical Engineers rapidly develop expertise in new domains in order to architect, design, deliver, support, and evolve next generation capabilities through the entire product life-cycle.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Creating detailed plans and specifications for new designs, or derivatives of the Anduril Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs).
• Creating detailed mechanical designs, prototypes and build of complex structures and mechanisms.
• Simulation and analysis of mechanical designs including modal/spectral response analysis.
• Ensure all designs meet internal and external maritime standards.
• Act as a subject matter expert for your areas of expertise as they relate to the delivery of Anduril technology capabilities, including areas such as part design, analysis and material selection.
• Inspecting parts, sub-systems and vehicles to meet design specifications and regulations.
• Design and implement integrated systems, including advanced and sensitive platforms and payloads, that rapidly delivers capability beyond the scope of current systems, with a clear path for both architecture and capability evolution over time.
• Empathise with end-users and drive solutions that balance their needs with external constraints, restrictions and requirements in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Contribute to the design and development of technology components across Anduril, with the aim of developing components that are re-usable across multiple Anduril product lines.
• Contribute to the design, implementation and execution of development processes for the initial delivery and subsequent iteration of structural hardware, including full lifecycle testing, monitoring and operation.
• Support vehicle and payload manufacturing, testing and deployment. Including DVT (Design Validation Testing) of parts and sub systems.
• Travel to co-locate with end-users, vendors, or the integration and test team up to 20% of the time.
• Work as a member of a multi-disciplinary engineering team, including as a mentor for more Junior Engineers from differing backgrounds.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace, Naval Architecture, a relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• Professional experience working as a Mechanical Engineer with one or more domains and/or technologies of expertise.
• Capacity to work holistically on complex mechanical systems and structures across design, implementation, operation and sustainment.
• Capacity to act as the technical owner for a complex structural components and assemblies, including stakeholder engagement, requirements definition, roadmap management, team co-ordination, design, implementation, sustainment and evolution.
• Capacity to learn and grow individually while being part of a dynamic team, building cohesion and capacity.
• Ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government Security Clearance.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• Experience with the design, analysis, testing, implementation and support of mechanical parts and assemblies.
• Experience working within the maritime defence domains or similar industry e.g. Aerospace or Automotive.
• Experience with NX, FEMAP and Teamcenter or similar CAD, FEA and PLM systems.
• Experience developing Finite Element Method (FEM) models for the purposes of part stress and strain evaluation, and modal analysis.
• Experience with welding, machining, sheet metal, injection molding, composites and/or additive manufacturing.
• Experience within the product delivery lifecycle including manufacturing, system acceptance, deployment, and sustainment.

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.