Spacecraft Dynamics Engineer: Ground Testing & Simulation

K2 Space Corporation; Los Angeles, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in company

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

K2 Space is seeking an analyst to own the derivation of loads and environments for ground transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation. You will build software tools and establish simulation workflows to support a variety of analyses in frequency and time domains.

In your first months you will devise development testing to correlate physics models with measured data, and you will own qualification and acceptance testing of satellite hardware at the component and vehicle level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, physics, or mathematics.
• 1+ years of work experience in dynamics either 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 experience

Test planning

Education

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

Tools

FEMAP

Nastran

Job description

K2 Space is seeking an analyst to own the derivation of loads and environments for ground transportation, launch, deployment, and on-orbit operation. You will build software tools and establish simulation workflows to support a variety of analyses in frequency and time domains.

In your first months you will devise development testing to correlate physics models with measured data, and you will own qualification and acceptance testing of satellite hardware at the component and vehicle level.