Senior Aerodynamicist, Autonomous UAV Systems

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 166,000 - 292,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa is seeking an Aerodynamicist to join the Omen team. You will design unmanned vehicles, perform aerodynamic analysis, and support wind tunnel and flight testing to advance a high-velocity, Group 3 platform.

You will influence full development lifecycle, work with high-ownership culture, and contribute to autonomous air systems with competitive compensation and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics, Physics, or related technical discipline.
• 8-10+ years of work experience as an individual contributing engineer in a high-impact startup environment.
• Experience with aircraft performance, analysis predictions, and Stability & Control.
• Competent in aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, vortex, lattice methods, panel methods, and CFD
• Wind tunnel and flight test experience including data acquisition, data analysis and project coordination
• Strong programming skills in MATLAB and Python for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment
• Experience leading engineering teams and projects for aerospace/defense sectors with focus on electric or hybrid propulsion
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance (US applicant) or NV-1 AUS security clearance (AUS applicant)
• Travel to test sites and vendors as needed.

Responsibilities

• Aerodynamic design of unmanned air vehicles/missiles at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities
• Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low and high order methods and developing/improving tools
• Stability and control analysis
• Aircraft performance modeling and simulation
• Aerodynamic loads generation
• Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis
• Flight test planning, execution, and analysis

Skills

Aerospace design

Unmanned aircraft

CFD

MATLAB/Python

Wind tunnel testing

Stability and Control

Problem solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

StarCCM+

Flow360

Job description

Anduril Industries in Costa Mesa is seeking an Aerodynamicist to join the Omen team. You will design unmanned vehicles, perform aerodynamic analysis, and support wind tunnel and flight testing to advance a high-velocity, Group 3 platform.

You will influence full development lifecycle, work with high-ownership culture, and contribute to autonomous air systems with competitive compensation and strong benefits.