Lead Structural Dynamics Engineer, Spaceflight

Telemetry Today LLC; Ashburn (VA); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 170.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellness stipend

Paid time off

Sick leave

Parental leave

401(k) matching

Descripción de la vacante

Overview Energy, based in the Northern Virginia area, is hiring a Structural Dynamics Lead to build in-house analysis capabilities for spacecraft structures. You will own loads, develop Craig-Bampton models, and drive tests and fixtures from scratch, ensuring flight structures survive launch and thermal cycling.

You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, define test requirements, and validate models against test data, delivering STOP analysis inputs and maintaining rigorous standards.

Formación

• A bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Structural Engineering.
• 5-10 years of structural analysis experience on flight hardware.
• Hands-on experience across the full analysis cycle on multiple flight structures: build the model, define the test, correlate, and recommend the fix.
• Expertise in Nastran structural dynamics (sine, random, and shock) using Femap, Patran, or Simcenter 3D.
• Experience defining static and dynamic test requirements and designing the fixtures to run them.
• Hands-on Siemens NX experience, from preparing geometry for analysis to modeling test fixtures.

Responsabilidades

• Build Nastran models from scratch for the primary structure, deployables, and the structure holding our optics
• Own loads and margins of safety for every flight structure, from launch vibration and shock to bolted joints
• Deliver Craig-Bampton models to launch providers and interpret the coupled loads results that come back
• Define static and dynamic test requirements: levels, durations, notching, sensor placement, and pass criteria
• Design and survey test fixtures, run test campaigns in person, and process the data yourself
• Correlate every model to test data and recommend design changes before hardware is released
• Predict how thermal cycling stresses our structures and correlate it to strain data from thermal tests
• Supply thermal distortion results to the optics team for Structural Thermal Optical Performance (STOP) analysis
• Write the analysis standards and validation procedures the next analyst inherits

Conocimientos

Nastran structural dynamics

Femap

Patran

Simcenter 3D

Siemens NX

Python or MATLAB

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or Structural Engineering

MS preferred in Mechanical/Aerospace/Structural Engineering

Herramientas

Nastran

Femap

Patran

Simcenter 3D

Siemens NX

Python

MATLAB

Descripción del empleo

Overview Energy, based in the Northern Virginia area, is hiring a Structural Dynamics Lead to build in-house analysis capabilities for spacecraft structures. You will own loads, develop Craig-Bampton models, and drive tests and fixtures from scratch, ensuring flight structures survive launch and thermal cycling.

You will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams, define test requirements, and validate models against test data, delivering STOP analysis inputs and maintaining rigorous standards.