Spacecraft Dynamics Engineer: Ground, Flight & Simulation

Doist; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking a motivated engineer to help derive loads and environments for satellites during ground transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation. You will build software tools and workflows to support analyses in frequency and time domains, and own qualification testing of hardware at component and vehicle levels.

Within a fast-paced startup environment, you will develop physics models, collaborate with engineers and external customers, and deliver data-driven engineering

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in mechanical, aerospace, physics or mathematics.
• 1+ years of work experience in dynamics from industry, research, internships or academic projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive subsystem-level dynamic testing from start to finish including test planning and coordination, test analysis, and model correlation.
• Develop physics models using finite element analysis or custom software
• Create software tools to support data processing and simulation frameworks
• Collaborate with design engineers, analysts, and external customers to develop satellite products
• Apply first principles in developing frameworks for both dynamics and non-dynamics analyses
• Contribute to code reviews for simulation and analysis tools
• Utilize analysis and test to provide data-driven engineering guidance and decisions
• Write high quality technical documentation of test and simulations

Skills

Python

Dynamics

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics

Tools

FEMAP

Nastran

Job description

K2 Space is seeking a motivated engineer to help derive loads and environments for satellites during ground transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation. You will build software tools and workflows to support analyses in frequency and time domains, and own qualification testing of hardware at component and vehicle levels.

Within a fast-paced startup environment, you will develop physics models, collaborate with engineers and external customers, and deliver data-driven engineering