Senior Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer

Location: Fort Eustis, VA • Work arrangement: primarily onsite • Clearance: Active Secret (Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding) • Travel: up to 25% • Employment: full-time, contingent upon contract award

About the role

Essnova is seeking two Senior Aerospace/Mechanical Engineers to provide aircraft analysis, integration, airworthiness, and testing support for U.S. Army aviation research and development projects.

Responsibilities

• Define technical performance measures for test and evaluation.
• Perform post-test data collection and analysis.
• Develop modeling and simulation environments, system architectures, and verification plans.
• Generate designs, drawings, and substantiation documentation supporting aircraft integration.
• Prepare airworthiness substantiation packages.
• Develop test plans and reports for structural, material, environmental, electromagnetic, vibration, and system testing.
• Produce stress and test reports addressing applicable specifications, FAA requirements, maneuver loads, crash loads, and fatigue loads.
• Analyze vibration data and Resonance Assessment Profile testing.
• Oversee less-senior engineering personnel and present technical findings.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited program, including classical analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue analysis, and finite/infinite life assessment.
• One of the following:
  • Bachelor’s degree and at least eight years of relevant aviation or R&D test, analysis, and reporting experience.
  • Master’s degree and at least six years of relevant experience.
  • Doctoral degree and at least three years of relevant experience.
• Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding.
• Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis and travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Army aviation airworthiness or AR 70-62 experience.
• Aircraft structural analysis, FEA, fatigue, vibration, or rotorcraft experience.
• Military aircraft integration and testing experience.

Proposal Requirement

Selected candidates must provide a qualification-traceable résumé and sign a Letter of Commitment confirming availability at the anticipated start of contract performance.