Materials Engineer, Design Allowables & Materials Data

About the Role

Anduril designs and fields systems across an unusually broad materials portfolio. Advancing our products depends on trusted, analysis-ready material data across this full range of materials, generated and governed at the pace our programs move. This role owns the enterprise materials database: building it, filling it, governing it, and making it the place Anduril's design values come from.
This role is your opportunity to establish the infrastructure, methodology, and governance that turn materials characterization and qualification into a defined workflow — and build the system that holds the output. You'll decide what a material record looks like, how test data gets into it, what makes a value trustworthy enough to release, and how the rest of engineering consumes it. It’s your opportunity to set a technical standard and get an organization to adopt it. Shape how materials engineering gets done, not just what gets tested. You’ll build the foundation and scale it.

What You'll Do

• Build the Materials Database. Own the materials database end to end — data model and schema, units and provenance, revision control, access, and release. Define how a material, a form, a process, a lot, and a test result relate to one another so a design value can always be traced back to the specimens behind it. Stand up the ingest paths that feed it: test lab deliverables, LIMS and test-frame output, supplier certs, and legacy data scattered across spreadsheets and program drives. Establish the criteria and pipeline that let advanced and non-standard materials be characterized once, correctly, and reused across programs.
• 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 inclusion criteria, traceability, versioning, and controlled release. Your methodology becomes the baseline every program’s materials data is held to.
• 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, so high-consequence design decisions rest on a consistent, defensible basis.
• Extract Value from Lifecycle Material Data. Capture the material property and certification data generated across our supply chain into the database, so every cert that clears receiving inspection becomes a data point rather than a PDF in a folder. Supplier, process, and lot-to-lot variability becomes a queryable digital thread of material traceability and enables faster decision-making through quantified material and process metrics.
• Serve as the Cross-Business-Line Technical Authority. Be the subject-matter expert for materials allowables and data across the portfolio. Partner with design, analysis, test, and quality to align on data requirements, support design and qualification reviews, and drive adoption of the right-sized solution for a program.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in 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—your methodology and specifications are clear, unambiguous, and actionable
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive progress independently in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• 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—high-temperature alloys, advanced composites, or additively-manufactured materials
• Experience integrating or standardizing materials data across disparate or legacy sources