Senior Aircraft Structures Design Engineer – Composites & Metals

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems; Poway (CA); On-site; USD 105,890 - 189,545; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), located in Poway, CA, seeks an Aircraft Structures Design Engineer to develop high-performance component and assembly designs for new and modified air vehicles, payload integrations, and advanced concepts.

The role focuses on designing, validating, and documenting primary and secondary structural designs using composite and metallic materials and finite element analysis tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering with extensive experience in aerospace structural design.
• Experience with finite element analysis (FEM) and hand calculations.
• Ability to obtain DoD security clearance and work with DoD standards.
• Strong documentation and packaging skills for Product Definition Packages.
• Hands-on aerospace manufacturing experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Create, review, and maintain design packages.
• Perform airframe structural layouts, sizing, and analyses.
• Document designs and interface studies for leadership.
• Lead preparation of engineering design solutions within an IPT.
• Support prototype manufacturing and integration activities.
• Ensure compliance with GD&T, AsMEs Y14 standards, and MBOD.

Skills

Aircraft structural design

Finite element analysis

Technical documentation

IPT collaboration

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerance

Model Based Definition

Leadership communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering

Master's degree in engineering

PhD in engineering

Tools

NX

Creo

Catia

SolidWorks

Fibersim

Catia CW

NX Simcenter

Creo Simulate

Nastran

Abaqus FE tools

Job description

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI), located in Poway, CA, seeks an Aircraft Structures Design Engineer to develop high-performance component and assembly designs for new and modified air vehicles, payload integrations, and advanced concepts.

The role focuses on designing, validating, and documenting primary and secondary structural designs using composite and metallic materials and finite element analysis tools.