Senior Dynamics & Loads Engineer: Reusable Space Vehicle

Outpost Technologies Corporation

Vista (CA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 225,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Estate health benefits

401(k) with company match

Equity participation

Daily lunch stipend

Paid time off

Job summary

Outpost is seeking a Senior Dynamics and Loads Engineer to lead loads, structural dynamics, and multibody analyses for the CarryAll vehicle. You will define environmental loads across launch, reentry, and reflight phases and work with design, structures, manufacturing, and test teams to drive hardware decisions.

The role emphasizes coupling loads analysis with vehicle architecture, using tools like ANSYS, Adams, and MATLAB.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related field.
5+ years of professional experience in loads, structural dynamics, multibody dynamics, or related analysis for aerospace, defense, or similarly demanding applications.
Strong fundamentals in rigid-body dynamics, structural dynamics, vibration, transient response, and mechanical system behavior.
Experience defining, evaluating, and testing mechanical loads and dynamic environments for flight hardware or other high-consequence systems including vibe and shock
Experience with coupled loads analysis (CLA) with launch vehicle providers including Craig-Bampton methods.
Experience with finite element analysis tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN, FEMAP, or equivalent, with emphasis on modal, transient, and dynamic structural analysis.
Experience with multibody dynamics tools such as ANSYS Motion, Adams, RecurDyn, Simpack, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar.
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with design, structures, manufacturing, and test teams to turn analysis into sound hardware decisions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

Own development of vehicle loads, structural dynamics, and multibody dynamics analyses from early architecture through hardware realization.
Define and mature environmental load cases and dynamic environments across the full mission, including launch, separation, heatshield deployment, reentry, landing, and other transient events.
Partner closely with hardware responsible engineers to translate dynamic analysis results into design requirements, sizing inputs, interface loads, and architecture decisions.
Support development of structural dynamics models, including modal characterization, transient response, and dynamic load prediction for flight hardware.
Drive dynamic trade studies to evaluate mechanism architecture, deployment performance, structural response, and system sensitivity under uncertain and evolving design conditions.
Develop multi-mission load spectra and support fatigue and durability assessments that define refurbishment intervals and reflight limits.
Help define test objectives, instrumentation needs, and correlation plans for mechanism, structural, and dynamic development tests.
Correlate simulation results to test and flight data and refine models, assumptions, and design recommendations based on hardware learnings.
Present analysis progress, technical risks, and recommended paths forward in design reviews and cross-functional program forums.
Operate effectively in a fast-paced, ambiguous development environment, balancing model fidelity, engineering judgment, and schedule needs.