Sr Engineer - Stress Analyst - Lunar Permanence

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. The goal is to build sustainable infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

Responsibilities

• Analysis of load path from conceptual to drawing release and hardware creation
• Analysis of primary and secondary spacecraft structures
• Integration of structural analysis with loads and dynamics environments
• Finite Element Model development, refinement, validation, and correlation to tests
• Strength checks and analysis report generation
• Test and verification plan and report generation
• Support configuration development and trade studies

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical, aerospace or civil engineering
• 8+ years of experience
• Strong foundation of structural static/dynamic fundamentals
• Passion for spacecraft structural/environmental loads development/validation
• Experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle, or automotive in areas such as external loads, vibro-acoustic analysis, thermal loads, analysis using Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, or Optistruct
• Desired skills include vehicle load path definition and strength analysis, analysis of metallic and/or composite structures, composite design and analysis skills, manufacturing methods, material selection, testing, characterization & allowables development, experience testing materials, joints, components and vehicles, structural optimization using standard industry codes, experience with ProEngineer Wildfire 4 / Creo Parametric or greater, experience with Human spaceflight, experience with composites

Skills

Passion for spacecraft structural/environmental loads development/validation

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 CO applicants is $133,500.00 - $186,898.95 WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20 Other Site Ranges May Differ

Schedule

Not specified