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Senior Flight Performance Engineer, Air Vehicles

Anduril· Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Hardware : Aerodynamics & Performance
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Costa Mesa, CA$166k - $220kFull-timePosted 10mo ago

About the role

Senior Flight Performance Engineer responsible for aerodynamic design, analysis and flight performance of Group 5 air vehicles and missile platforms, including planning and execution of flight tests and development of performance models.

Responsibilities

  • Aerodynamics and flight performance of unmanned air vehicles/missiles
  • Work with flight test team to support planning, execution and analysis of flight sciences focused testing
  • Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low- and high-order methods, including analysis tool development and improvement as needed
  • Stability and control analysis
  • Aircraft performance modeling and simulation
  • Aerodynamic loads generation

Qualifications

  • BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering
  • 8+ years work experience as an individual contributing engineer
  • Ability to travel as required for testing
  • Test experience including data acquisition, data analysis and project coordination
  • Flight test param-id (parameter identification) for aerodynamic modeling
  • Experience with aircraft performance analysis and predictions
  • Competent in a variety of aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, vortex lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
  • Strong programming skills in higher-level languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python) for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment
  • Experience preparing formal documentation (i.e. specifications, test procedures, technical reports, etc.)
  • Possess and be able to maintain a U.S. Secret security clearance.

Skills

Required:Aerodynamics analysisFlight test planning and executionAerodynamic modelingProgramming (MATLAB, Python)

Benefits

  • top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including: health, recovery, and other coverage
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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