Senior Flight Sciences EngineerActive$253K

Hybrid · Costa Mesa, California, United StatesManufacturing

The opportunity

The Tactical Recon and Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from paper sketches to operational systems.

What you'll do

  • Aerodynamic Design & Analysis:

  • Aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms at: conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities

  • aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low and high order: methods, including analysis tool development and improvement as needed

  • Conduct detailed analysis to predict and enhance aero performance.

  • Utilize Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools and low-order methods for performance evaluation.

  • Develop and maintain in-house suite of aerodynamic analysis tools.

What they're looking for

  • Evaluate impacts of configuration changes on performance of the aircraft.
  • Flight Simulation Development:
  • Design, implement, and maintain high-fidelity flight simulation models.
  • Utilize simulation to evaluate aircraft performance and reliability.