Satellite Dynamics Engineer - Simulations & Testing

K2 Space Corporation; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

K2 Space Corporation in Los Angeles is seeking a Dynamics Engineer to own the successful derivation of loads and environments for satellites during ground transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation. You will build software tools and establish simulation workflows to support analyses in frequency and time domains.

Within months you will devise development testing to correlate physics models with data and own qualification testing of hardware at component and vehicle levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics
• 1+ years of work experience in dynamics either from industry, research, internships or academic projects

Responsibilities

• Support dynamic testing at the component and subsystem level, including test planning and coordination, test analysis, and model correlation
• Develop physics models using finite element analysis (e.g., Nastran) or custom-built software (e.g., Python)
• Create software tools to support data processing and simulation frameworks
• Collaborate with design engineers, analysts, and external customers to develop satellite products
• Apply first principles in developing frameworks for both dynamics and non-dynamics analyses
• Contribute to code reviews for simulation and analysis tools
• Utilize analysis and test to provide data-driven engineering guidance and decisions
• Write high-quality technical documentation of test and simulations
• Support derivation of loads, environments, and other dynamics-driven design and test criteria, including vibration, shock, and jitter maximum predicted environments and response-limit derivation (e.g., NASA 7004C)
• Support coupled loads analysis (CLA), including superelement/Craig-Bampton model builds
• Assist with jitter and pointing performance analysis, including Monte Carlo dispersion modeling
• Assist with vibroacoustic analysis, including patch-method framework development
• Support modal test and analysis activities, including ground and flight test correlation

Skills

Physics modeling

Finite element analysis

Python programming

Test planning

Model correlation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics

Master’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics

Tools

FEMAP

Nastran

Python

Job description

K2 Space Corporation in Los Angeles is seeking a Dynamics Engineer to own the successful derivation of loads and environments for satellites during ground transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation. You will build software tools and establish simulation workflows to support analyses in frequency and time domains.

Within months you will devise development testing to correlate physics models with data and own qualification testing of hardware at component and vehicle levels.