Senior Thermal Engineer

About The Team

The Anduril Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) team is on a mission to build next generation solid rocket motors for a safer, more connected world. To achieve our vision of becoming a large-volume provider of tactical rocket motors, we will develop differentiated products and services that maximize our customers' capabilities, and we will establish and maintain a reputation of Quality and Reliability.

About The Job

Anduril’s Rocket Motor Systems group is seeking a Senior Thermal Engineer to join our team. The Rocket Motor Systems group designs, develops, and manufactures next-generation solid rocket motors for defense and space applications at Anduril. As a Thermal Engineer you will conduct detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.

What You'll Do

• Perform detailed thermal analysis of solid rocket motor components.
• Size internal insulation, external thermal protection systems, and structural insulators.
• Validate models with test data; develop predictive ablation and erosion models.
• Define sub-scale tests for characterizing material properties of insulators and ablators.
• Evaluate and recommend ablative materials and thermal protection system solutions for applications in solid rocket motors.
• Create reports and presentations documenting analysis and other supporting work.
• Present to peers and customers in design reviews.

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Working knowledge of fundamental heat transfer, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics first principles.
• Prior experience operating CAD software and/or FEA software.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to travel to other Anduril sites, customer sites, or supplier sites as business demand dictates.
• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Secret Security Clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree (master’s or doctorate) in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar with a focus on ablation modeling, computational combustion, or reacting flows.
• Experience with Abaqus FEA software.
• Expertise in engineering tool development in Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, and/or Python.
• Expertise with thermochemical ablation and material response analysis, with an emphasis on ablation in solid rocket motors and/or reentry systems.
• Expertise with ablation modeling tools, such as Hero, CHAR, PATO or similar, and surface chemistry tools, such as ACE or Mutation++.

Benefits

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:

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

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