Senior Structural Analyst -- Upper Stage Structures

About the role

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

Responsibilities

• Apply standard engineering techniques to collect, aggregate, and analyze data measuring the performance and reliability of Aerospace systems and components to or improve design, producibility, and efficiencies.
• Evaluate and analyzes structural systems to establish environments and ensure that hardware is appropriately specified for those environments.
• Develop predictions of structural dynamic responses through a variety of analytical techniques, including hand calculations, FEA, some of which may require the development of software tools to implement algorithms developed specifically for the application at hand.
• Identify trends in technical performance or reliability and prepares reports detailing these trends as well as anticipated impact or cost to the organization.
• Improve and maintain current systems or create new systems; apply engineering techniques and analyses within the scope of the assignment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Structural Engineering, or related discipline with 10+ years of relevant experience performing structural analysis.
• Strong understanding of material properties, failure mechanisms, and structural dynamics.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with experience in leading cross-functional projects.
• Strong understanding of product development cycle in space industry.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication abilities.
• Experience with finite element analysis (FEA) software. FEMAP required.
• Candidate must be able to write technical reports and to present results to a multi-disciplined team.
• Ability to lead projects and work effectively in a team environment.

Qualifications

• MS degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Knowledge of aerospace and/or launch vehicle structural requirements.
• Experience in large scale structural test and instrumentation.
• Loads development experience.
• Experience building and maintaining large system finite element models (FEM).

Skills

• Technical expertise in aerospace and launch vehicle structural analysis.
• Leadership and mentoring skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Effective communication and report writing skills.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• Short and long-term disability.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%.
• Education Support Program.
• Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week).
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

Pay

Base Pay Range For WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20 Other Site Ranges May Differ

Schedule

Not specified