Senior Spacecraft Structures Engineer

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in Seattle, WA seeks a senior structural engineer to own the full lifecycle of spacecraft hardware from requirements to integration, focusing on primary and secondary metallic and composite structures.

You will perform hand calcs and FEM analyses, document stress analyses for release of drawings, and collaborate across design, manufacturing, and mission integration to ensure safe, repeatable spaceflight.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering and 10+ years of experience with aircraft, spacecraft, or launch vehicle structures.

Responsibilities

• Take leadership of the full lifecycle of hardware from requirements definition through concept development, design, analysis, testing, qualification, and integration.
• Analysis lead of primary and secondary metallic and composite unpressurized structures.
• Complete hand calc and FEM analyses to report margins of safety for primary and secondary aerospace structures.
• Documentation of stress analysis to support release of engineering drawings / documents.
• Perform research, develop concepts, and run trade studies providing technical guidance (risk vs. cost vs. performance).
• Build system and detail level models supporting structural design.
• Take ownership of structural test planning, execution, data reduction, analysis, and authoring of test reports.
• Prepare technical content and present to internal and external customers.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams throughout design, manufacturing, and mission integration.
• Provide shipside support and technical guidance during spacecraft integration.
• Drive configuration development and trade studies in support of customer requests and proposals.
• Collaborate and negotiate requirements with internal and external customers.
• Improving enterprise analysis capabilities such as creating process automation tools for model creation, strength checks, and analysis report generation.
• Coach, mentor and technically assist junior engineers and analysts.

Skills

Leadership

Structure design

FEM analysis

CAD (Creo)

Ansys

Nastran

Optistruct

Hypermesh

Education

B.S. in Engineering

Tools

Creo

Windchill

Ansys

Nastran

Optistruct

Hypermesh

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in Seattle, WA seeks a senior structural engineer to own the full lifecycle of spacecraft hardware from requirements to integration, focusing on primary and secondary metallic and composite structures.

You will perform hand calcs and FEM analyses, document stress analyses for release of drawings, and collaborate across design, manufacturing, and mission integration to ensure safe, repeatable spaceflight.