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Senior Multiphysics Engineer, High Speed Reacting Flow

Anduril Industries
Location
Costa Mesa, California, United States
Posted
11 days ago
Department
Hardware Platform : Hardware Engineering Services
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • Master’s degree in Aerospace engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Physics, or a related field
  • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. secret security clearance
  • 5+ years of experience in CFD, aerothermal, thermal, or combustion analysis
  • Foundational understanding of compressible flow including shocks, choked flow, and supersonic nozzles
  • Strong first-principles understanding of heat transfer and fluid dynamics, including conduction, convection, radiation, fluid flow, and transient thermal behavior
  • Experience with commercial CFD code such as STAR-CCM+, Fluent, or similar, including meshing and driving a case to convergence
Nice to have
  • PhD in a related field
  • Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance
  • Experience with solid rocket motors, propulsion systems, or energetic materials
  • Experience with reacting flow modeling — finite-rate or equilibrium chemistry and species transport
  • Experience with chemistry and gas property tools such as NASA CEA, Cantera, or CHEMKIN
What the job really is

As a Senior Multiphysics Engineer at Anduril Industries, you will be responsible for conducting internal flow, combustion, and heat transfer analyses for air vehicle propulsion systems. Your work will involve running CFD analyses, developing models from hand calculations to 3D simulations, and collaborating with various engineering teams to support design decisions and validate results against test data.

Benefits
  • Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Things to weigh
  • No specific information on the company's culture or work-life balance
  • Salary range provided, but actual offers may vary based on multiple factors
  • Role involves complex technical work which may require significant collaboration across teams
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