Senior Spacecraft Structural Stress Analyst

InvestedintheMission; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 134,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a design engineer to advance the Lunar Transportation system within the Lunar Permanence unit. You will analyze loads, develop FE models, and ensure structural hardware meets requirements while balancing cost and schedule constraints.

You will collaborate with NASA and national partners on the Human Landing System program, applying physics-based methods to static and dynamic analyses and contributing to safe human spaceflight and verification efforts.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical, aerospace or civil engineering
• 8+ years of experience
• Solid foundation of structural static/dynamic fundamentals
• Passion for spacecraft structural/environmental loads development/validation
• Ability to solve a variety of static and dynamic structural problems using physics-based analytical methods (hand calculations, in-house tools, and 3rd party commercial analytical tools)
• Experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle, or automotive in some of the following areas: External loads, Vibro-acoustic analysis, Thermal loads, Analysis using Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, or Optistruct

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
• Finite Element Model development, refinement, validation, and correlation to tests
• Strength checks and analysis report generation
• Test and verification plan and report generation
• Support configuration development and trade studies

Skills

Structural analysis

Finite Element Analysis

Loads analysis

Problem solving

Education

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

Tools

Nastran

Ansys

Abaqus

LS-Dyna

Optistruct

Creo Parametric

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a design engineer to advance the Lunar Transportation system within the Lunar Permanence unit. You will analyze loads, develop FE models, and ensure structural hardware meets requirements while balancing cost and schedule constraints.

You will collaborate with NASA and national partners on the Human Landing System program, applying physics-based methods to static and dynamic analyses and contributing to safe human spaceflight and verification efforts.