Senior Lunar Stress Analyst – Spacecraft Structures

Blue Origin; Washington; On-site; USD 111,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin seeks a skilled Structural Analysis Engineer to support the Lunar Transportation program. You will perform FEA, evaluate load paths, and ensure designs meet safety and cost targets while collaborating with NASA and partners.

You will model primary/secondary structures, validate results with tests, and contribute to trade studies, ensuring robust, reusable spaceflight hardware for lunar missions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical, aerospace or civil engineering.
• Level 2 Requirement: 5+ years of experience.
• Strong fundamentals in static and dynamic structural analysis.
• Experience with spacecraft structural/environmental loads development/validation.
• Ability to solve static and dynamic problems using physics-based methods.
• Experience with external loads, vibro-acoustic, and thermal loads.
• Proficiency with leading FEA tools listed in qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Analysis of load path from conceptual to drawing release and hardware creation.
• Analysis of primary and secondary spacecraft structures.
• Integration of structural analysis with loads and dynamics environments.
• Development, refinement, validation, and correlation of Finite Element Models.
• Strength checks and analysis report generation.
• Test and verification plan and report generation.
• Support configuration development and trade studies.

Skills

Finite Element Analysis

Structural analysis

Spacecraft experience

Dynamic loads

Thermal loads

Engineering judgment

Load-path analysis

Modeling in FEA software

Education

B.S. degree in mechanical, aerospace or civil engineering

Tools

Nastran

Ansys

Abaqus

LS-Dyna

Optistruct

Creo Parametric

Job description

Blue Origin seeks a skilled Structural Analysis Engineer to support the Lunar Transportation program. You will perform FEA, evaluate load paths, and ensure designs meet safety and cost targets while collaborating with NASA and partners.

You will model primary/secondary structures, validate results with tests, and contribute to trade studies, ensuring robust, reusable spaceflight hardware for lunar missions.