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About Anduril Industries
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.
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Listed pay typically runs
$146,000–$194,000
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Staff Thermal Engineer, Hypersonic Air Vehicles joins the Thermal Engineering team to manage the full development lifecycle for advanced defense technologies in complex environments. This role involves the thermal design and analysis of unmanned air vehicles across conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design stages. Key responsibilities include defining system architectures, material selection strategies, and performing transient analyses for time-varying mission profiles. The candidate will conduct ground test planning and execution, along with flight test data analysis. Required technical skills include proficiency in CFD tools like STAR-CCM+ or ANSYS Fluent, FEA solvers such as NASTRAN or Abaqus, and programming in MATLAB and Python. Additionally, the role requires experience with SolidWorks or Siemens NX to support integrated solutions for high-speed flight regimes involving extreme thermal loads and material response modeling under demanding conditions.