Senior Aerospace Structural Analysis Engineer (FEA)

Mach Industries; Huntington Beach (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Healthcare benefits

Professional development

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA, is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to own sizing and optimization of primary and secondary airframe structures using hand calculations and FEA. You will build FEMs, write margins of safety, and balance mass, strength, stiffness, performance, and manufacturability at scale.

Collaborating with designers, loads and dynamics, and flight sciences, you will validate designs with testing, produce analytic reports, and mentor peers while accelerating

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of aerospace structural analysis optimization experience including metallics, composites, and bolted/bonded joints.
• Strong understanding of structural mechanics, load paths, free-body diagrams, strength, stiffness, stability, and structural sizing.
• Proficiency with CAD and structural analysis tools such as NX, FEMAP, Nastran, ANSYS, Abaqus, or equivalent to perform end to end structural analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own vehicle structural sizing from preliminary architecture through detailed design including major load bearing structure, skins, spars, ribs, equipment mounts, and structural interfaces.
• Work alongside chief and design engineers using hand calculations and FEA to develop efficient load path structures, material selection, joint configurations, and other design decisions.
• Work closely with manufacturing, test, loads, and other engineering teams to develop practical, buildable structural solutions.
• Support structural testing, design reviews, prototype builds, and rapid design iterations as vehicle requirements and architectures mature.
• Generate sizing documentation, analysis reports, structural margins, engineering drawings, and supporting technical documentation for design reviews and hardware release.
• Act as ‘analysis’ signoff reviewer for engineering data package releases across the program.
• Mentor other engineers and accelerate development of hardware across the program.

Skills

Hand calculations

Finite element analysis (FEA)

NX

FEMAP

Nastran

ANSYS

Abaqus

Structural analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

NX

FEMAP

Nastran

ANSYS

Abaqus

Job description

Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, CA, is seeking a Senior Structural Engineer to own sizing and optimization of primary and secondary airframe structures using hand calculations and FEA. You will build FEMs, write margins of safety, and balance mass, strength, stiffness, performance, and manufacturability at scale.

Collaborating with designers, loads and dynamics, and flight sciences, you will validate designs with testing, produce analytic reports, and mentor peers while accelerating