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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.\nAbout the Team\nAnduril's Materials Engineering team is seeking a Senior Materials and Process Engineer with a background in structural composites and bonded structures to join our rapidly growing team. Our team is the materials authority across Anduril's product portfolio, from autonomous aircraft and submarines to missiles and solid rocket motors, providing material selection guidance, developing design allowables, and qualifying manufacturing processes that take composite hardware from prototype to high-rate production.\nAbout the Role\nAnduril designs and fields systems across an unusually broad materials portfolio. Advancing our products depends on trusted, analysis-ready design allowables across this full range of materials, and this role owns how we generate, govern, and scale that material property data company-wide.\nThis role is your opportunity to establish the methodology, infrastructure, and governance that turns materials characterization and material qualification into a strategically defined workflow for producing defensible, analysis-ready allowables. It’s your opportunity to set a technical standard and get an organization to adopt it. Shape how materials engineering gets done, not just what gets tested. You’ll build the foundation and scale it.\nWho You Are\nYou measure your impact by how much better you make the engineers around you. You build trust across teams, share credit, and are the person others seek out to solve hard problems with.\nYou have a bias for action. You’d rather stand up a defensible first version and iterate toward rigor than wait to reach perfection.\nYou think in systems as much as in specimens.\nYou are as comfortable defining the statistical basis for a design value as you are architecting how that data is captured, governed, and reused.\nYou do your best work where the path isn’t drawn yet. Ambiguity is a starting condition, not a blocker-bringing structure to fast-moving, loosely-defined problems is exactly the work, and exactly what you enjoy.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn the Design Allowables Standard. Define and own how test data becomes a defensible design value across Anduril’s business lines-statistical basis (A-basis / B-basis, pooling, reduction methods), acceptance and inclusion criteria, traceability, versioning, and controlled release. Your methodology becomes the baseline every program’s materials data is held to.\n\nBuild the Materials Data Pipeline. Architect and stand up a materials data pipeline that ingests, structures, governs, and releases materials data into our enterprise materials database. Establish the criteria and pipeline that let advanced and non-standard materials be characterized once, correctly, and reused across programs.\n\nTurn Testing into a Strategic Workflow. Transform materials characterization and test data management from testing performed as needed into a defined system: what gets tested, to what rigor, and how results become trusted allowables.\n\nEstablish Fatigue and Fracture-Critical Methodology. Define and implement a standardized approach to fatigue-life assessment and damage tolerance, including the qualification path for using materials in a fracture-critical applications, so high-consequence design decisions rest on a consistent, defensible basis.\n\nExtract Value from Lifecycle Material Data. Build the means to turn the material property and certification data generated across our supply chain into a growing statistical foundation that strengthens our knowledge base over time. Supplier, process and lot-to-lot variability, becomes a queryable digital thread of material traceability, and enables faster decision making through quantified material and process metrics.\nServe as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority. Be the subject-matter expert for materials allowables and data across the portfolio. Partner with design, analysis, test, and quality to align on data requirements, support design and qualification reviews, and drive adoption of the right sized solution for a program.\n\nSeed the Function. Set the technical standard for materials data and allowables at Anduril. Build the capability and with it, the team around you. A staff engineer here builds capability in the people and systems around them, not just in the work they touch.\n\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field\n8+ years of materials and process engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or a comparably rigorous domain\nDeep expertise in materials characterization and design allowables development, including statistical basis (e.g., MMPDS / CMH-17-style methods)\nDemonstrated experience turning test data into governed, analysis-ready datasets-data structure, statistics, and traceability (materials data management)\nExperience with material qualification and characterization: mechanical testing, and translating results into usable design values\nProven ability to set a technical standard and drive adoption across teams\nStrong technical writing-your methodology and specifications are clear, unambiguous, and actionable\nAbility to manage multiple priorities and drive progress independently in a fast-paced environment\nAbility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance\nPreferred Qualifications\nActive U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance\nHands-on experience with scoping and executing a characterization campaign from scratch\nBackground in fatigue and fracture mechanics, especially for fracture-critical or damage-tolerant components\nExperience with materials data management / materials informatics platforms and partnering with software/data teams to build data pipelines\nDirect experience with advanced or non-standard materials-high-temperature alloys, advanced composites, or additively-manufactured materials\nExperience integrating or standardizing materials data across disparate or legacy sources\nUS Salary Range\n$166,000—$220,000 USD\nThe salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: \nBenefits\nAt Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.\nProtecting Yourself from Recruitment Scams\nAnduril is committed to maintaining the integrity of our Talent acquisition process and the security of our candidates. We've observed a rise in sophisticated phishing and fraudulent schemes where individuals impersonate Anduril representatives, luring job seekers with false interviews or job offers. These scammers often attempt to extract payment or sensitive personal information.\nTo ensure your safety and help you navigate your job search with confidence, please keep the following critical points in mind:\nNo Financial Requests: Anduril will never solicit payment or demand personal financial details (such as banking information, credit card numbers, or social security numbers) at any stage of our hiring process. Our legitimate recruitment is entirely free for candidates.\n\nPlease always verify communications:Direct from Anduril: If you receive an email from one of our recruiters, it will only come from an @anduril.com address.\nVia Agency Partner: If contacted by a recruiting agency for an Anduril role, their email will clearly identify their agency. If you suspect any suspicious activity, please verify the agency's authenticity by reaching out to . \n\nExercise Caution with Unsolicited Outreach: If you receive any communication that appears suspicious, contains grammatical errors, or makes unusual requests, do not engage. Always confirm the sender's email domain is @anduril.com before providing any personal information or clicking on links.\n\nWhat to Do If You Suspect Fraud: Should you encounter any questionable or fraudulent outreach claiming to be from Anduril, please report it immediately to . Your proactive caution is invaluable in protecting your personal information and upholding the security and trustworthiness of our recruitment efforts.\n\nData Privacy\nTo view Anduril's candidate data privacy policy, please visit https://anduril.com/applicant-privacy-notice/. \nBy submitting your application, you consent to Anduril Industries using a third-party service provider to conduct pre-employment risk, integrity, and due diligence screening and assessing potential risks as part of your application process. This third-party service provider provides risk-intelligence services that may include analysis of sanctions and watchlists, adverse media, public-record information, and other lawful open-source or commercial data sources. This third-party service provider does not act as a consumer reporting agency. 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