Senior Aerospace Structures Engineer

Blue Origin; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced structural engineer to join the Lunar Customer Programs team supporting New Glenn. You will own hardware through design, analysis, fabrication, and test, delivering safe, reusable spaceflight structures for government and commercial customers.

Responsibilities include design, analysis, CAD modeling, test planning, and working with multi-disciplinary teams to meet performance and schedule targets while maintaining a culture of safety and quality. U.S.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering or equivalent technical field.
• 5+ years related experience in structural design and analysis of automotive, aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures.
• Strong mechanical design and integration skills using 3D CAD software (Creo, CATIA V5, SolidWorks, AutoDesk or other industry standard software).
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance analysis (ASME Y14.5) proficiency.
• Structural design of metallic components and assemblies.
• Vehicle load path distribution, and first order strength assessment and sizing.
• Material selection, compatibility and manufacturing techniques.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct structural analysis using hand-calculation and finite element techniques, using any industry standard software: Ansys, Nastran, Optistruct, LS Dyna, Hypermesh, Hypersizer
• Strong presentation, documentation and communications skills, with the ability to present the solution and build consensus among customers and New Glenn stakeholders.
• Passion for building flight hardware and creativity for inventing new technology.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Design, analysis, development, and testing of primary and secondary structures, including composites and metallic piece parts, as well as integrated structural assemblies
• Execute research, configuration development, and trade studies to meet performance, schedule, and cost targets
• Create CAD models, detail part drawings, assemblies, installations, and interface control documents
• Apply practical approaches to hardware fabrication and cost impacts
• Create test plans, specifications, and other documentation for the development and production of flight hardware
• Subsystem test planning, execution, data reduction and analysis, and test data review
• Review technical work of team members (drawings, analyses, test plans) to identify design improvements and ensure quality standards before release
• Balance customer solutions with documented, repeatable processes
• Proactively engage with manufacturing and have regular floor presence during critical build phases
• Identify design or manufacturing issues immediately and lead root cause analyses for moderate-scope NCs
• Maintain visual project status indicators (activity schedule, budget and technical status) for team transparency
• Work with multi-functional teams that are responsible for selecting materials, manufacturing processes, and suppliers to produce world-class aerospace hardware
• Respond to customer-driven schedules
• Manage multiple concurrent projects with attention to team capacity and sustainable pace
• Develop junior engineers into future technical leads through progressive delegation

Skills

3D CAD design

Finite element analysis

Structural design

ASME Y14.5 GD&T

Material selection

Presentation & communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering

MS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace engineering

Tools

Creo

CATIA V5

SolidWorks

AutoDesk/AutoCAD

ANSYS

Nastran

Optistruct

LS-DYNA

HyperMesh

Windchill

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced structural engineer to join the Lunar Customer Programs team supporting New Glenn. You will own hardware through design, analysis, fabrication, and test, delivering safe, reusable spaceflight structures for government and commercial customers.

Responsibilities include design, analysis, CAD modeling, test planning, and working with multi-disciplinary teams to meet performance and schedule targets while maintaining a culture of safety and quality. U.S.