- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- Costa MesaCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Aug 21, 2026
- Salary
- $112,000–$149,000 a year
Full-time
Thermal Design Engineer
Job description
The Thermal Engineering team enables Anduril's rapid hardware development cycle by ensuring advanced defense systems perform reliably in demanding real-world environments. The team works across high-power, tightly integrated products where thermal architecture, analysis, testing, and cross-functional design decisions directly affect product performance, reliability, and mission success.
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…
Job responsibilities
- Support thermal design and analysis for integrated hardware products, including drones, aircraft, missiles, or related defense systems
- Apply first-principles engineering judgment using hand calculations, spreadsheets, and MATLAB/Python models to inform design decisions
- Build and maintain thermal FEA/CFD models to predict system performance and establish design limits
- Support prototype builds and thermal tests, including sensor selection, DAQ setup, data post-processing, and results documentation
- Contribute to defining thermal architectures for rugged environments, demanding flight envelopes, and mission-specific thermal conditions
- Partner with electrical, mechanical, aerospace, and systems engineers to document power dissipation, operating modes, and thermal constraints
- Present thermal analysis results and recommendations in internal design reviews
- Develop internal tools, workflows, or analysis methods that improve speed and quality of thermal decision-making