Senior Flight Performance Engineer, Air Vehicles

The role

This person will perform aerodynamics and flight performance work for unmanned air vehicles and missiles. They will support flight test planning, execution, and analysis, and perform aerodynamic analysis using various methods.

What you will do

• Aerodynamics and flight performance of unmanned air vehicles/missiles
• Work with flight test team to support planning, execution and analysis of flight sciences focused testing
• Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low- and high-order methods
• Analysis tool development and improvement
• Stability and control analysis
• Aircraft performance modeling and simulation
• Aerodynamic loads generation

Required qualifications

• BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering
• 8+ years work experience as an individual contributing engineer
• Ability to travel as required for testing
• Test experience including data acquisition, data analysis and project coordination
• Flight test param-id (parameter identification) for aerodynamic modeling
• Experience with aircraft performance analysis and predictions
• Competent in a variety of aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, vortex lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Strong programming skills in higher-level languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python) for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment
• Experience preparing formal documentation (i.e., specifications, test procedures, technical reports, etc.)
• Possess and be able to maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience with transonic and supersonic flow regimes

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Possess and be able to maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance
• Consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. Their family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.