Senior Structural Analyst – Aerospace & Spaceflight

Blue Origin LLC; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

Blue Origin LLC in Washington State seeks an experienced Structural Analyst to perform hand calculations and FEM analyses on aircraft/spacecraft/launch vehicle structures, supporting production, testing, and operations. You will document stress analyses, guide repairs for metallic and composite structures, and review designs for reliability and safety.

The role requires a BS in mechanical or aerospace engineering with 5+ years in structural analysis, plus knowledge of load paths and scripting.

Qualifications

• B.S. degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering or equivalent experience, and 5+ years of structural analysis experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle structures or automotive
• Demonstrated knowledge of vehicle load path and stress analysis of metallic and/or composite structures (pressure vessels, skin-stringer, fittings, sandwich panels, etc.)
• Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (Bruhn, Niu, Roark, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience using scripting languages (VBA, Matlab, Python, FORTRAN, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Detailed hand calc and FEM analysis of primary and secondary aerospace structures for production support and sustainment initiatives
• Documentation of stress analysis to support release of engineering drawings / documents
• Deep understanding of repair methods and analytical practices for both metallic and composite structure
• Ability to perform technical assessment of damage or out of tolerance conditions and provide guidance on repair or use
• Providing technical guidance on design concepts (risk vs. cost vs. performance)
• Maintain and report on technical status
• Participate in subsystem test planning, execution, data reduction and analysis.
• Prepare technical content and present to internal and external customers
• Supporting cross organizational teams with input for production activities and configuration development
• Analysis checks for designers and junior structural analysts in stress/stability/fracture analysis and best practices
• Improving enterprise analysis capabilities such as creating process automation tools for model creation, strength checks, and analysis report generation

Skills

Structural analysis

Load path analysis

FEM analysis

Scripting (VBA, Matlab, Python, FORTR

Education

B.S. in Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering

MS degree (preferred)

Tools

Nastran

Ansys

Abaqus

LS-Dyna

Optistruct

NASGRO

Job description

Blue Origin LLC in Washington State seeks an experienced Structural Analyst to perform hand calculations and FEM analyses on aircraft/spacecraft/launch vehicle structures, supporting production, testing, and operations. You will document stress analyses, guide repairs for metallic and composite structures, and review designs for reliability and safety.

The role requires a BS in mechanical or aerospace engineering with 5+ years in structural analysis, plus knowledge of load paths and scripting.