Senior Structural Engineer - New Glenn

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

• Full design engineering ownership of composite structural components.
• Lead engineering scope to close including planning, detailed design, engineering release, procurement, and test.
• Provide general build support Engineering through the disposition of non-conformances, identification of process improvements, and updates to engineering definition.
• Create and modify CAD drawings, specifications, and other documentation.
• Support procurement activities to support vehicle build schedules.
• Support integrated test objectives, data review, and reporting.
• Perform or facilitate emergent analysis for non-conformances.
• Participate in subsystem level testing including planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
• Work with multi-functional teams across multiple work sites that include design, analysis, materials, processes, structures, fluids, systems, procurement, and manufacturing.

Requirements

• B.S. degree or higher in mechanical, structural, or other relevant engineering field.
• 5-10+ years in professional engineering experience with automotive, aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures.
• Strong fundamentals in mechanics of materials, stress/strain, statics, and finite element analysis.
• Experience with composite structure repairs.
• Experience on recently developed vehicles in one or more of the following areas: vehicle load path distribution and first order strength assessment and sizing.
• Experience with large primary or secondary structures.
• Experience with material selection, compatibility, and metallic manufacturing techniques & product forms (e.g. sheet metal, machining, etc).
• Familiarity with tolerance, GD&T and design for manufacturability.
• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software.
• Hands on experience with hardware “on the production floor” and/or “in service”.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently driving engineering from conceptual to released engineering and flight hardware.
• Experience designing for manufacturability and value engineering, with focus on cost reduction and build time hour optimization.
• Product data management (PDM) skills (e.g. Windchill, TeamCenter, etc).
• Experience with FEA analysis codes: Nastran, ANSYS, Optistruct, LS/Dyna.
• Familiarity with buckling, fatigue and/or fracture failure modes.
• Experience in risk management and consolidation of technical data for presentation to senior leadership.

Skills

• Passion for our mission and vision is required!

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

TBD

Schedule

TBD