Senior Space Vehicle Dynamics Engineer

Inversion; United States; On-site; USD 137,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Inversion is seeking a Senior Dynamics Engineer to own loads, structural dynamics, and multibody dynamics analyses for an advanced reentry vehicle. You will work across architecture, structures, mechanisms, and test to define dynamic environments and validate performance through analysis and hardware correlation.

Join a fast-paced mechanical team reporting to the Director of Mechanical in Playa Vista, CA. Inversion values rigorous analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• 5+ years in loads, structural dynamics, multibody dynamics for aerospace/defense.
• Strong fundamentals in rigid-body dynamics, vibration, and transient response.
• Experience with multibody dynamics for mechanisms and deployment systems.
• Ability to define mechanical loads and dynamic environments for flight hardware.
• Proficiency with FEA/MD tools: ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN; motion tools: ANSYS Motion, Adams.

Responsibilities

• Own development of vehicle loads, structural dynamics, and multibody dynamics analyses from architecture through hardware realization.
• Define and mature load cases and dynamic environments for launch, shock, vibration, separation, deployment.
• Develop and maintain multibody dynamics models to evaluate separation events and mechanism-driven behaviors.
• Translate analysis results into design requirements and interface loads.
• Support development of structural dynamics models: modal characterization and transient response.
• Drive dynamic trade studies on mechanism architecture, deployment, and structural response.
• Define test objectives, instrumentation needs, and correlation plans for tests.
• Correlate simulation results to test data and refine models and design recommendations.
• Present progress and risks in design reviews and cross-functional forums.
• Operate in a fast-paced, ambiguous development environment.

Skills

Loads analysis

Structural dynamics

Multibody dynamics

Vibration analysis

Modeling & simulation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's in AE/ME or related

Tools

ANSYS

Abaqus

NASTRAN

FEMAP

ANSYS Motion

Adams

RecurDyn

Simpack

MATLAB/Simulink

Job description

Inversion is seeking a Senior Dynamics Engineer to own loads, structural dynamics, and multibody dynamics analyses for an advanced reentry vehicle. You will work across architecture, structures, mechanisms, and test to define dynamic environments and validate performance through analysis and hardware correlation.

Join a fast-paced mechanical team reporting to the Director of Mechanical in Playa Vista, CA. Inversion values rigorous analysis, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering