What You'll Do:
- Develop and maintain finite element models of spacecraft structures and subsystems
- Perform structural analyses to evaluate strength, stiffness, and dynamic response under launch and on-orbit environments
- Work closely with mechanical design, controls, systems and other engineers to iterate on hardware designs and to optimize integrated structural and payload optical performance such as wavefront error and pointing stability
- ย Contribute to structural test planning including vibration and modal testing
- Correlate analytical models with hardware test results to improve model fidelity
- Help improve structural analysis workflows, tools, and modeling infrastructure
Your Ideal Skills and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field
- Strong fundamentals in structural mechanics (stress, strain, stiffness, load paths, dynamics
- Experience performing finite element analysis (FEA) on mechanical or aerospace systems including dynamics
- Familiarity with structural analysis tools such as Nastran, Ansys, or equivalent (Nastran/Femap preferred)
- ย Ability to apply first principles and evaluate whether analysis results are physically reasonable
- Experience collaborating with hardware design teams to iterate on mechanical systems
- Strong communication skills and ability to clearly explain engineering reasoning
- Familiarity with bolted and bonded joints, kinematic interfaces and contact stress, rolling elements and mechanisms, opto-mechanical assemblies and composites structures
Salary Range:
- $85,000 - $95,000 per year