Lead Space Instrument Engineer (R&D 3)

Los Alamos National Laboratory; Los Alamos (NM); On-site; USD 128,000 - 216,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Competitive benefits

Onsite gym and wellness programs

Job summary

Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking an experienced mechanical engineer to join the Space Instrument Realization Group (ISR-5). You will lead the design, analysis, assembly, testing, and integration of custom space-based instrumentation for national security and fundamental science applications.

The Intelligence and Space Research Division at LANL has more than 60 years of experience designing, building, and operating ground-, air-, and space-based systems supporting nuclear

Qualifications

• Experience translating program requirements, launch environments, and mission constraints into actionable criteria.
• Demonstrated use of engineering fundamentals to support design decisions.
• Experience leading mechanical engineering and design for complex hardware and systems.
• Professional development of early-career engineers and students in mechanical design, analysis and testing, documentation, and engineering judgment.
• Proficiency in CAD modeling and generating engineering drawings of complex hardware, including applying GD&T per ASME 14.5 standard.
• Proficiency in configuration control with PDM software or equivalent.
• Proficiency in hand calculations, finite element analysis or finite difference methods to perform structural and thermal analyses using simulation tools, such as ANSYS, Abaqus, Thermal Desktop, Simcenter, and/or NASTRAN.
• Experience conducting design trades, risk reduction activities, and applying engineering decisions throughout hardware development.
• Experience supporting and/or leading environmental test planning, data review, model correlation, requirements verification, or qualification/acceptance documentation.
• Demonstrated excellent verbal communication, and history of preparing high-quality technical reports and presentations and reviewing materials for internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated technical expertise supporting sub-teams, meetings, design reviews, test readiness reviews, qualification reviews, and flight-readiness decisions.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team environment, including interfacing with other engineers, scientists, technicians, project/program staff, sponsors and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to safety, security, quality, peer review, and responsible engineering practices.
• Ability to obtain clearances as required for project work.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, analysis, fabrication, assembly, and/or deployment of spaceflight hardware.
• Act as a technical leader and mentor early-career engineers and student engineers.
• Contribute to ISR-5 mechanical engineering tools, methods, and best practices.

Skills

CAD modeling

GD&T ASME14.5

Finite element analysis

Leadership

Mentorship

Test planning

Engineering judgment

Verbal communication

Team collaboration

Communications

Education

Master's degree in engineering

Job description

Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking an experienced mechanical engineer to join the Space Instrument Realization Group (ISR-5). You will lead the design, analysis, assembly, testing, and integration of custom space-based instrumentation for national security and fundamental science applications.

The Intelligence and Space Research Division at LANL has more than 60 years of experience designing, building, and operating ground-, air-, and space-based systems supporting nuclear