ABOUT THE TEAM

The Anduril Rocket Motor Systems (RMS) team is on a mission to build next generation solid rocket motors for a safer, more connected world. To achieve our vision of becoming a large-volume provider of tactical rocket motors, we will develop differentiated products and services that maximize our customers’ capabilities, and we will establish and maintain a reputation of Quality and Reliability.

ABOUT THE JOB

Anduril is seeking a Senior Structural Analyst to join RMS in Huntsville, AL. As a Senior Structural Analyst, you will own the structural analysis of solid rocket motor hardware: propellant grains, motor cases, nozzles, igniters, and ignition safety devices. You'll operate in a lean, high-ownership culture where you directly shape the product and move fast enough to test new designs in months, not years. The right person combines first-principles depth in stress, dynamics, shock/vibration, and thermal-structural analysis with fluency in the tools of the trade, and wants their analysis to be tied to real hardware and real test data.

• Perform static and dynamic structural analysis across metallics, composites, and viscoelastics (propellant, insulation, liner) using the right tool for the job, from hand calculations and scripts to detailed FEA.
• Build and own FEMs at the global and subsystem level, including motor cases, nozzles, and grain, along with model organization, documentation, and configuration control.
• Analyze coupled and transient environments such as ignition pressurization, shock and vibration, flight and captive-carry loads, and thermal-structural interaction, where the answer isn't a closed-form margin.
• Set and defend structural margins against customer requirements, industry standards, and safety regulations.
• Partner with design and hardware engineers to turn analytical results into better designs, fast.
• Plan and support validation testing: instrumentation and load requirements, Do-Not-Exceed limits, real-time load monitoring, data collection, model-to-test correlation, and dispositioning of inspection findings.
• Document methodology and results in technical reports for internal teams and external stakeholde

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• BS or higher in engineering or applied physics with a structures focus.
• Strong command of statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, and material behavior.
• Proficiency in commercial FEA (ANSYS, Abaqus, or NASTRAN), including linear and nonlinear static and buckling solution sequences.
• Proficiency in Python or MATLAB (or equivalent) for analytical modeling, data reduction, and automation.
• Experience with CAD tools (NX, SolidWorks).
• Comfort establishing scope, requirements, and methodology for ambiguous, ill-defined problems, and driving them to closure with minimal direction.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of relevant structural analysis experience, or equivalent education, and demonstrated ownership of hardware outcomes.
• MS or higher in Mechanical Engineering or applied physics with a structures focus.
• Structural analysis experience on solid rocket motors or comparable pressure-vessel / harsh-environment hardware.
• Solid rocket motor propellant grain structural analysis (viscoelastic materials, bore strain, cure shrinkage, thermal cycling).
• Composite and filament-wound case analysis and tooling such as WoundSim, CadWound, or similar.
• Hands-on structural test experience: sensor selection, data acquisition, and post-processing (static, buckling, cyclic).
• Workflow automation tooling.