Structural Design Engineer Jobs

This Position is a 6 Month Project that can continue.

We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling our clients vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.

Responsibilities:

• Generate 3-D models, component drawings, assembly drawings, and interface control documents.
• Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
• Participate in the development and purchase of new equipment and tooling.
• Create documentation for assembly and testing of development and flight hardware.
• Work with cross-functional teams that are responsible for selecting materials, manufacturing processes, and suppliers to produce world class aerospace hardware.
• Develop component specifications and manage suppliers.
• Provide manufacturing and production support.
• Participate in the entire design cycle of structural and mechanical subsystems, including conceptual and detailed design, trade studies, structural analysis, development testing and qualification.

Qualifications:

• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software.
• Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
• Material selection, compatibility, and manufacturing techniques.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering.
• Familiar with GD&T analysis (ASME Y14.5).
• Familiarity with automotive, aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures.

Desired:

• Experience with Creo (Pro/E) Wildfire 5 or greater, Windchill 10.
• Ability to apply structural mechanics principles and development designs using hand calculations and finite element analysis.
• Experience with Optimization and DOE methods as applied to design, analysis, and testing.
• Experience with rapid development techniques for hardware.
• Demonstrated experience developing manufacturing processes for transition to production.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team responsible for selecting materials, manufacturing processes, and developing the design to produce world-class engineered products.
• Knowledge of systems engineering practices, manufacturing fabrication and assembly processes, and quality control.
• Expertise with analysis codes: Nastran, ANSYS,Optistruct, LS/Dyna, Abaqus.
• Awareness of metallic and composite design and analysis considerations.
• Experienced with fabrication of composite primary structures for aerospace.