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Air Vehicle Lead, Missiles

Anduril· Air Dominance & Strike : Air Dominance & Strike Hardware
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Costa Mesa, CA$175k - $205kfull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Lead the mechanical development of new autonomous air vehicles for missiles, from concept to flight test, within Anduril’s Air Dominance and Strike team in Costa Mesa, CA.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the mechanical development of new autonomous air vehicles, from initial system layout and conceptual design through detail design, fabrication, and flight test
  • Derive and shape requirements both internally and externally
  • Drive system architecture and design solutions in order to meet performance, rate, and cost requirements
  • Hands-on development of aircraft, airframe, and subsystem detailed design, analysis, fabrication, and assembly
  • Lead design reviews, present to customers, visit vendors, help define and execute test plans
  • Build prototypes, analyze failures, and transition successful projects into production
  • Travel to test sites and support customer discussions as needed
  • Provide individual contributions in addition to technical leadership and oversight for a team of 10 to 25 multidisciplinary engineers

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in aerospace, mechanical engineering, or related field
  • 8+ years of aerospace experience in a professional setting
  • Working knowledge of MIL standards and industry best practices
  • Strong understanding and experience developing air vehicle conceptual designs and transitioning them to flying and deployable systems
  • Familiarity with key aircraft subsystems and their development methods, including aero-performance, stability and control, structures, mechanisms, avionics, propulsion, fuel systems, thermodynamics, electrical integration, etc.
  • Experience creating, organizing, and managing complex vehicle development designs in CAD
  • Experience developing and using aircraft sizing tools
  • Experience with prototype and production airframe manufacturing methods including composites and metallics
  • Demonstrated leadership to manage scope and schedules, deconflict issues, communicate up and down the chain
  • Active U.S. Secret security clearance

Skills

Required:Aerospace engineeringCAD modelingAircraft sizing toolsSystems engineering

Benefits

  • Top-tier benefits for full-time employees (health, recovery, and more)
  • Highly competitive equity grants included in the majority of full-time offers
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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