Senior Structural Analyst, Solid Rocket Motors

Slope; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 126,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Equity grants

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Structural Analyst in Huntsville, AL to own structural analysis of solid rocket motor hardware, including propellant grains, motor cases, nozzles, igniters, and ignition safety devices. You will work in a lean, high-ownership culture where you directly shape the product and move fast enough to test new designs in months, not years.

You'll combine first-principles depth in stress, dynamics, shock/vibration, and thermal-structural analysis with fluency in FEA

Qualifications

• BS or higher in engineering or applied physics with a structures focus.
• Strong command of statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, and material behavior.
• Proficiency in commercial FEA (ANSYS, Abaqus, or NASTRAN), including linear and nonlinear static and buckling solution sequences.
• Proficiency in Python or MATLAB for analytical modeling, data reduction, and automation.
• Experience with CAD tools (NX, SolidWorks).
• Comfort establishing scope, requirements, and methodology for ambiguous, ill‑defined problems, and driving them to closure with minimal direction.

Responsibilities

• Perform static and dynamic structural analysis across metallics, composites, and viscoelastics using the right tool for the job, from hand calculations and scripts to detailed FEA.
• Build and own FEMs at the global and subsystem level, including motor cases, nozzles, and grain, with model organization and configuration control.
• Analyze coupled and transient environments such as ignition pressurization, shock and vibration, flight and captive‑carry loads, and thermal-structural interaction.
• Set and defend structural margins against customer requirements, industry standards, and safety regulations.
• Partner with design and hardware engineers to turn analytical results into better designs, fast.
• Plan and support validation testing: instrumentation and load requirements, Do-Not-Exceed limits, real-time load monitoring, data collection, model-to-test correlation, and dispositioning of inspection findings.
• Document methodology and results in technical reports for internal teams and external stakeholde

Skills

Statics, dynamics

FEM/FEA

Python or MATLAB

CAD tools

VISION? wait

Education

BS in engineering or applied physics (structures focus)

MS in Mechanical Engineering (structures)

Tools

ANSYS

Abaqus

NASTRAN

NX

SolidWorks

Job description

Anduril Industries is seeking a Senior Structural Analyst in Huntsville, AL to own structural analysis of solid rocket motor hardware, including propellant grains, motor cases, nozzles, igniters, and ignition safety devices. You will work in a lean, high-ownership culture where you directly shape the product and move fast enough to test new designs in months, not years.

You'll combine first-principles depth in stress, dynamics, shock/vibration, and thermal-structural analysis with fluency in FEA