Staff Materials Engineer, Design Allowables & Materials Data

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own 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…
• Build 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.
• Turn 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…
• Establish 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…
• Extract 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…
• Serve as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority. Be the subject-matter expert for materials allowables and data across the portfolio.
• Seed the Function. Set the technical standard for materials data and allowables at Anduril. Build the capability and with it, the team around you.

Job requirements

• You 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.
• You have a bias for action. You’d rather stand up a defensible first version and iterate toward rigor than wait to reach perfection.
• You think in systems as much as in specimens.
• You are as comfortable defining the statistical basis for a design value as you are architecting how that data is captured, governed, and reused.
• You 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.
• Bachelor’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field
• 8+ years of materials and process engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or a comparably rigorous domain
• Deep expertise in materials characterization and design allowables development, including statistical basis (e.g., MMPDS / CMH-17-style methods)