Senior Thermal EngineerNew$194K

The Thermal Engineering team enables Anduril’s rapid hardware development cycle by ensuring advanced defense systems perform reliably in demanding real-world environments. The team works across high-power, tightly integrated products where thermal architecture, analysis,…

What you'll do

• Own thermal design and analysis for integrated hardware products, including: drones, aircraft, missiles, or related defense systems.

• Use first-principles engineering judgment to determine the right level of: analysis for each design decision, including hand calculations, spreadsheets, MATLAB / Python models, FEA, and CFD.

• Define thermal architectures that can withstand rugged environments,: demanding flight envelopes, and operational edge cases, including hot, cold, transient, and mission-specific thermal conditions.

• Partner with electrical, mechanical, aerospace, software, and systems: engineers to document power dissipation, operating modes, thermal constraints, and design tradeoffs.

• Build and maintain thermal FEA / CFD models to predict system performance,: establish design limits, and define red / yellow operating thresholds for test and field use.

• Define and execute prototype builds and thermal tests, including CAD support,: sensor selection, DAQ setup, data post-processing, and results documentation.

What they're looking for

• Experience with thermal analysis tools such as STAR-CCM+, ANSYS, Icepak,: Flotherm, or comparable FEA / CFD platforms.
• Experience using MATLAB, Python, spreadsheets, or similar tools for: first-order thermal modeling, transient analysis, or engineering trade studies.
• Experience designing thermal hardware such as heat sinks, cold plates, fans,: pumps, heat exchangers, thermal interface materials, liquid cooling systems, or air-cooling systems.
• Experience planning or executing thermal tests, including sensor selection,: data acquisition, data post-processing, and correlation of test results to analysis.
• Experience with SolidWorks, Siemens NX, or comparable CAD tools.
• Experience supporting formal design reviews, customer reviews, flight test,: qualification testing, or fielded hardware.
• Experience developing reusable analysis tools, automation workflows,: reduced-order models, or other methods that improve analysis speed and consistency.
• Strong motivation to support Anduril’s mission of defending the United States and allied partners.