Senior Flight Sciences Engineer - Tactical Reconnaissance and Strike Division
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Senior Flight Sciences Engineer responsible for guidance, control law development, aerodynamic design, and flight simulation for autonomous tactical reconnaissance and strike drones.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
The Tactical Recon and Strike team at Anduril develops aerial small drones (Group 1-3) and all equipment to test, deploy and operate. The team is responsible for taking products like Ghost, Anvil, Bolt and Altius from paper sketches to operational systems. We work in close coordination with specialist teams to solve some of the hardest problems facing our customers. We are looking for software engineers, hardware engineers, roboticists, and front-end mobile developers who are excited about creating a powerful robotics platform that can be tasked and viewed in real-time through a variety of interfaces.
The guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) team within TRS performs implementation, analysis, test, and validation for GNC software solutions supporting our autonomous drone fleet. Applications include attitude and position control, waypoint and terminal guidance engagements, and navigating contested environments including communication and GPS denied environments.
ABOUT THE JOB
This role will be responsible for guidance and control law development and validation, hardware and software in-the-loop test and analysis, and cutting edge navigation solutions supporting the entire range of drones within TRS.
What You’ll Do
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Preferred Qualifications
- Aerodynamic Design & Analysis
- Aerodynamic design of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid VTOL platforms at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities
- aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low and high order methods, including analysis tool development and improvement as needed
- Conduct detailed analysis to predict and enhance aero performance.
- Utilize Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools and low-order methods for performance evaluation.
- Develop and maintain in-house suite of aerodynamic analysis tools.
- Evaluate impacts of configuration changes on performance of the aircraft.
- Flight Simulation Development
- Design, implement, and maintain high-fidelity flight simulation models.
- Utilize simulation to evaluate aircraft performance and reliability.
- Validate simulation accuracy against wind tunnel and flight test results
- Testing
- Work with Flight Test personnel to plan and execute tests to evaluate aircraft performance
- Plan and coordinate wind tunnel testing to gather aerodynamic data
- Analyze test data to identify performance trends and areas for improvement.
- Utilize flight test data to identify system bugs and failures
- Prepare technical reports and briefings to communicate findings with stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field.
- 8+ years applicable professional experience with airborne platforms
- Proven experience in aerodynamic design and analysis, flight simulation, and flight testing
- Extensive hands-on experience with CFD tools, MATLAB/Simulink, or equivalent simulation platforms
- Expert level programming and data analysis skills (MATLAB, C++, etc.)
- Strong understanding of aerodynamics and flight dynamics, stability, and control
- A passion for defending the Unites States of America and its allies
- US person status is required as this position requires access to export controlled information
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Experience with flight control design and analysis for fixed and rotary wing aircraft or missile systems
- C/C++ Expertise
- Experience with Simulink Embedded Coder
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