Materials Engineer

About the Role

Anduril designs and fields systems across an unusually broad materials portfolio. This role owns the enterprise materials database, establishing the infrastructure, methodology, and governance to transform materials characterization and qualification into a defined workflow.

Key Responsibilities

• Build the Materials Database: Own the materials database end-to-end, including data model and schema, units and provenance, revision control, access, and release. Define relationships between materials, forms, processes, lots, and test results. Establish ingest paths from test lab deliverables, LIMS and test-frame output, supplier certs, and legacy data. Establish criteria and pipelines for characterizing and reusing advanced and non-standard materials.
• Own the Design Allowables Standard: Define and own how test data becomes a defensible design value across Anduril's business lines, including statistical basis (e.g., A-basis / B-basis, pooling, reduction methods), acceptance and inclusion criteria, traceability, versioning, and controlled release.
• 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 fracture-critical applications.
• Extract Value from Lifecycle Material Data: Capture material property and certification data from the supply chain into the database to enable faster decision-making through quantified material and process metrics, and create a digital thread of material traceability.
• Serve as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority: Act as the subject-matter expert for materials allowables and data. Partner with design, analysis, test, and quality teams to align on data requirements, support design and qualification reviews, and drive adoption of solutions.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field.
• 2+ years of materials and process engineering experience in aerospace, defense, or a comparably rigorous domain.
• Expertise in materials characterization and design allowables development, including statistical basis (e.g., MMPDS / CMH-17-style methods).
• Experience building or owning a materials data system: schema or data model design, ingest from test and supplier sources, units and provenance handling, revision control, and traceability from design value back to specimen.
• Experience with material qualification and characterization: mechanical and thermal testing, and translating results into usable design values.
• Proven ability to set a technical standard and drive adoption across teams.
• Strong technical writing skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive progress independently.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.

Qualifications (Preferred)

• Master’s degree in Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Metallurgy or a related field.
• Direct experience with building a materials database for aerospace, propulsion, or defense applications.
• Active U.S. Secret or Top Secret security clearance.
• Hands-on experience with scoping and executing a characterization campaign from scratch.
• Background in fatigue and fracture mechanics, especially for fracture-critical or damage-tolerant components.
• Experience with materials data management / materials informatics platforms and partnering with software/data teams to build data pipelines.
• Direct experience with advanced or non-standard materials (e.g., high-temperature alloys, advanced composites, or additively-manufactured materials).
• Experience integrating or standardizing materials data across disparate or legacy sources.