Senior Mechanical Engineer, Rocket Motor Systems
Anduril Industries
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This role pays less than 82% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$193,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $131k versus about $172k for comparable roles.
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Anduril Industries is a defense technology company that builds advanced hardware and software systems for national security, including autonomous drones, surveillance systems, and the Lattice AI command platform.
Anduril Industries currently has 1697 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $146,000–$194,000 across 1504 roles with salary data.
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Senior Mechanical Engineer, Rocket Motor Systems As a Senior Mechanical Engineer on the Rocket Motor Systems team, you will lead the mechanical design and analysis of critical solid rocket motor components, including motor cases, nozzles, propellant grains, igniters, and ignition safety components. You will provide technical leadership to component-level engineers while performing CAD designs and finite element analysis for structural and thermal systems. Your daily responsibilities include generating product definitions, creating technical reports, participating in design reviews, and supporting prototyping, manufacturing, and test operations at various facilities. The role requires expertise in mechanical design, stress and thermal analysis principles, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing. You will utilize tools such as NX CAD, Abaqus FEA, Microsoft Excel, MATLAB, and Python to develop propulsion systems and solve complex engineering challenges within the rocket motor domain.
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