Staff Materials Engineer, Design Allowables & Materials DataActive$220K

Anduril Industries
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The opportunity

Anduril's Materials Engineering team is seeking a Senior Materials and Process Engineer with a background in structural composites and bonded structures to join our rapidly growing team. Our team is the materials authority across Anduril's product portfolio, from autonomous…

What you'll do

  • Own the Design Allowables Standard. Define and own how test data becomes a: defensible design value across Anduril’s business lines—statistical basis (A-basis / B-basis, pooling, reduction methods), acceptance and inclusion criteria, traceability, versioning, and controlled release. Your methodology becomes the baseline every program’s materials data is held to.

  • Build the Materials Data Pipeline. Architect and stand up a materials data: pipeline that ingests, structures, governs, and releases materials data into our enterprise materials database. Establish the criteria and pipeline that let advanced and non-standard materials be characterized once, correctly, and reused across programs.

  • Turn Testing into a Strategic Workflow. Transform materials characterization: and test data management from testing performed as needed into a defined system: what gets tested, to what rigor, and how results become trusted allowables.

  • Establish Fatigue and Fracture-Critical Methodology. Define and implement a: standardized approach to fatigue-life assessment and damage tolerance, including the qualification path for using materials in a fracture-critical applications, so high-consequence design decisions rest on a consistent, defensible basis.

  • Extract Value from Lifecycle Material Data. Build the means to turn the: material property and certification data generated across our supply chain into a growing statistical foundation that strengthens our knowledge base over time. Supplier, process and lot-to-lot variability, becomes a queryable digital thread of material traceability, and enables faster decision making through quantified material and process metrics.

  • Serve as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority. Be the subject-matter: expert for materials allowables and data across the portfolio. Partner with design, analysis, test, and quality to align on data requirements, support design and qualification reviews, and drive adoption of the right sized solution for a program.

What they're looking for

  • You measure your impact by how much better you make the engineers around you.: You build trust across teams, share credit, and are the person others seek out to solve hard problems with.
  • You have a bias for action. You’d rather stand up a defensible first version: and iterate toward rigor than wait to reach perfection.
  • You think in systems as much as in specimens.
  • You are as comfortable defining the statistical basis for a design value as: you are architecting how that data is captured, governed, and reused.
  • You do your best work where the path isn’t drawn yet. Ambiguity is a starting: condition, not a blocker—bringing structure to fast-moving, loosely-defined problems is exactly the work, and exactly what you enjoy.