Senior Structural Analyst

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting-edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

The Test and Analysis team is responsible for ensuring that emerging products are ready for the harsh conditions of air, land, sea, and space environments. Our team supports multi-disciplinary product teams across the full life cycle to design, develop, and validate new and existing products. This includes requirements analysis, environmental and electromagnetic interference testing, reliability testing, and manufacturing sustainment efforts. The Test and Analysis team achieves these objectives through consistently striving to understand primary design drivers through analytical modelling, including specialized structural-thermal-optical performance (STOP) analysis, along with strategic engineering validation and qualification test campaigns. This fused approach ultimately enables us to identify opportunities for product robustness and quickly implement solutions to ensure critical capabilities efficiently make it into the hands of our military and its allies.

We are looking for a Structural Analyst to join our rapidly growing team in Lexington, MA. In this role, you will be responsible for performing structural analysis and taking ownership of structural loads and design aspects for an exciting, emerging program at Anduril. You will execute first order assessment of designs to guide preliminary design architecture, develop detailed analytical models to mature prototype designs and develop predictions to support hardware testing. If you are someone who is excited to work on new projects from conceptualization through production and are passionate about developing validated and correlated models to support the rapid prototyping of cutting edge systems.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Execute hand calculations, spreadsheet, and MATLAB/Python first-order models to inform path forward before jumping into detailed analysis. Use first principles as a basis for every decision and discern the right level of analysis to apply based on state of hardware design and program goals
• Develop appropriate computational models and simulations to predict stress distribution, deformation, fracture, and fatigue life as needed to meet design schedules. Generate, maintain, and correlate integrated FEMs
• Perform test-model correlation testing to validate analytical predictions
• Prepare technical reports to present findings to internal teams, management, and external customers
• Work closely with environmental test engineers to support the design, instrumentation selection, execution, and data processing of tests to validate models and predictions, including static, dynamic, and fatigue tests
• Stay current with advancements in stress analysis techniques, materials technology, and industry standards

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Minimum BS in an engineering discipline
• 8+ years of experience in a structures, dynamics, or loads development related role
• Deep understanding of statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, and materials properties
• Structural FEA Experience (NASTRAN) including solution sequences for linear and non-linear static and buckling analyses, modal analysis, frequency response, and random response analyses
• Prior experience with EO/IR sensors and performing analysis of optomechanical systems including design of athermalized systems and developed structural, thermal, and optical performance (STOP) models
• Experience with performing stress, strain, fatigue and fracture analysis in support of customer requirements sell-off
• Familiarity with Matlab or Python (or equivalent) for developing analytical models and performing data acquisition & post-processing
• General knowledge of environmental test instrumentation and data acquisition
• Good at working independently and with various teams and key stakeholders
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Secret security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced graduate degrees (Masters or PhD)
• Structural testing experience (static, buckling, cyclic, vibration) including sensor selection, data acquisition, and data post-processing
• Experience with space system dynamics analysis and testing, including force limiting and pyroshock
• Proficiency with Femap and NASTRAN
• Experience with structural analysis of PCBAs
• Basic knowledge of MIL-STD-810 or equivalent