Staff Fuel Systems Engineer, Omen

The role

You will own the design, development, and qualification of fluids systems for a Group 3 autonomous air vehicle. This includes fuel, hydraulics, thermal management, environmental control, and pneumatic systems from concept through low rate initial production.

What you will do

• Own and drive the design, development, and qualification of fluids systems on a Group 3 autonomous air vehicle.
• Lead technical efforts to define system requirements, develop architectures, and evaluate trade studies.
• Perform system-level analysis including pressure drop, flow distribution, thermal balance, and CFD.
• Work with propulsion, structures, electrical, avionics, controls, and software teams.
• Specify, source, and qualify fluids components including pumps, valves, and tanks.
• Spearhead design reviews and conduct hands-on rig and aircraft-level testing.
• Define and own fuel system architecture suitable for tail-sitter operation.
• Support thermal management of propulsion, avionics, and payload heat loads.
• Contribute to the enhancement of team tools, templates, processes, and standards.
• Support critical hardware demonstrations with customers as needed.

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years in a technical engineering role with a focus on aircraft or aerospace fluids systems.
• Strong technical knowledge in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and aircraft fluids systems design, analysis, testing, and qualification.
• Deep understanding of fuel, hydraulic, thermal management, environmental control, and/or pneumatic system architectures.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and testing fluids systems hardware.
• Experience in an immersive technical project.
• Strong proficiency in CAD software.
• Proficiency with system-level fluids analysis tools.
• Working knowledge of applicable airworthiness and aerospace standards (e.g., SAE AS, MIL-STD, AS9100).
• BS or MS in mechanical, aerospace, or chemical engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on fabrication and test skills.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance

Nice to have

• Experience in NX/Teamcenter
• Experience with clean sheet aircraft fluids system architecture and integration
• Experience designing fuel systems for unconventional aircraft configurations (tail-sitter, VTOL, tilt-rotor, or other multi-attitude platforms)
• Experience with two-phase and pumped-loop thermal management systems
• Experience qualifying fluids components to aerospace environmental and vibration standards (e.g., DO-160, MIL-STD-810, MIL-STD-704)
• Experience leading vendor development and qualification of fluids components
• Experience with CFD applied to internal flows, sloshing, or thermal analysis
• Familiarity with running system-level development and qualification testing on fluids rigs and integrated aircraft

Benefits

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

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. security clearance

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology.