Senior ML Engineer, Core Development
Anduril IndustriesBase Salary
$220k - $292k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end design, training, and deployment of production surrogate models for aerospace simulation workflows.
- Develop physics-focused neural architectures and methods for uncertainty quantification, active learning, inverse problems, and geometry optimization.
- Build pipelines to extract, aggregate, sanitize, and manage high-fidelity engineering solver results.
- Optimize GPU utilization, batched evaluation, and inference latency for interactive design workflows.
- Integrate surrogate predictions into existing domain-engineering tools.
- Partner with aerospace, structures, thermal, and other domain engineers to identify high-leverage ML applications.
- Mentor non-ML engineers and stay current with Physics AI research.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in aerospace, thermal, mechanical, or electrical engineering, or in machine learning, AI, or data science with a demonstrated engineering foundation.
- At least 3 years of experience taking ML models from R&D into production using large-scale scientific or engineering datasets.
- Working knowledge of surrogate architectures such as GNNs, Transolver, DoMINO, and GeoTransolver.
- Hands-on experience with physical simulations such as CFD, FEA, and thermal simulation, including underlying numerical methods.
- Proficiency in Python and MATLAB and experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, and NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo (Modulus).
- Experience developing on Linux with GPU accelerators, distributed training, production data pipelines, uncertainty quantification, statistical analysis, and data science dashboards.
- U.S. Person status and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include graduate research in AI for scientific simulation, inverse-problem and active-learning experience, aerospace or other simulation-heavy hardware experience, commercial solver, meshing, and CAD interoperability knowledge, ML methods such as Gaussian processes and XGBoost, visualization expertise, and MLOps orchestration experience.
Benefits
- Full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package available at little to no cost.
- The role is based onsite in the Costa Mesa, California office.
- Full-time offers may include equity grants as part of total compensation.
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About Anduril Industries
Anduril is not a traditional defense contractor. We are shaping the future of defense, transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology. We emphasize speed and results and control our products from start to finish, including funding R&D to selling finished products off the shelf. Today, Anduril is in a rapid growth phase, deploying technology in diverse locations and developing path-making products that will change defense forever. We believe that everyone at Anduril can be a catalyst. Your perspective can change lives, and we want to help you make your mark. Our team includes thinkers and doers working interdependently. We bring the brightest minds and best-in-class talent together with veterans who have lived the problems of our warfighters. If you like building quickly and seeing your work deployed in the real world, we want you at Anduril. With offices in Orange County, Washington DC, Seattle, Boston, Atlanta, London, and Sydney, our reach is wide. Check out our careers page at https://www.anduril.com/careers or send us an email at careers@anduril.com.