Senior Deployable Structures Analyst (Space Antennas)

E-Space; Saratoga (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

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Job summary

E-Space is seeking a Senior Structures Analyst to own the structural analysis backbone of its Integrated Antenna Structure team. You will develop and maintain the deployed antenna FEM, perform modal, static, and dynamic analyses, and ensure margins flow from system to component levels.

The role focuses on nonlinear, large‑displacement problems and requires delivering analysis that supports deployable structures from concept through test, with close proximity to hardware in Texas or California.

Qualifications

• BS/MS/PhD in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in FEA structural analysis (Nastran/ANSYS) for modal, static, and linear dynamics.
• Experience with flight/high-reliability hardware structural analysis and margin of safety calculations.
• Experience with structural dynamics (modal analysis, frequency response, eigenvalue methods) beyond static stress.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated FEM of the deployed assembly, incorporating structural element stiffness and mass properties from contributing subsystem teams and deployment mechanism boundary conditions.
• Perform deployed‑state structural performance analysis: modal survey prediction, static deflection under on‑orbit loads (thermal, attitude control), and margin of safety verification.
• Develop and maintain the structural requirements allocation, flowing from system‑level performance requirements down to component‑level stiffness, mass, and CTE requirements for each contributing team.
• Lead model‑test correlation at each level of the V&V test pyramid: update model parameters from test data, maintain a documented correlation record.
• Perform deployment analysis (e.g., deployable element kinematics, tensioning loads, deployment force margins, system dynamics) in support of the Deployable Structures Test Engineer's test predictions.
• Assess structural risk of design changes and interface deviations, and provide structural input to anomaly investigation teams.
• Develop and maintain the structural analysis error budget, tracking margin consumption as design changes occur.

Skills

FEA analysis

Modal analysis

Dynamic analysis

System FEM integration

Education

BS/MS/PhD in AE/ME

Tools

Nastran

ANSYS

Job description

E-Space is seeking a Senior Structures Analyst to own the structural analysis backbone of its Integrated Antenna Structure team. You will develop and maintain the deployed antenna FEM, perform modal, static, and dynamic analyses, and ensure margins flow from system to component levels.

The role focuses on nonlinear, large‑displacement problems and requires delivering analysis that supports deployable structures from concept through test, with close proximity to hardware in Texas or California.