Lead Stress Engineer, Aerospace (Hybrid)

Virgin Galactic; Mesa (AZ); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Virgin Galactic seeks a Specialist Stress Engineer to tackle advanced structural challenges across the full vehicle life cycle, from concept through production and sustainment.

The role involves leading a team, performing detailed FEA/analyses, and delivering clear technical documentation while collaborating with Structures, Manufacturing, Flight Test, and Operations to ensure vehicle readiness for flight.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or closely related field.
• Minimum 12 years of structural analysis or stress-related aerospace experience.
• Strong understanding of material properties, static analysis, and load paths.

Responsibilities

• Develop solutions for complex structural problems using innovative analysis.
• Perform structural analysis and substantiation of components and assemblies.
• Create, review, and update analysis documentation and plans.
• Lead and coordinate a team of stress engineers on projects.
• Support production, manufacturing, and flight readiness activities.

Skills

Structural analysis

FEA/NASTRAN

MATLAB

Team leadership

Communication

MS Office

C++/Python

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

Tools

NASTRAN

FEMAP

HyperX

CATIA

ENOVIA

Job description

Virgin Galactic seeks a Specialist Stress Engineer to tackle advanced structural challenges across the full vehicle life cycle, from concept through production and sustainment.

The role involves leading a team, performing detailed FEA/analyses, and delivering clear technical documentation while collaborating with Structures, Manufacturing, Flight Test, and Operations to ensure vehicle readiness for flight.