Spacecraft Structures Analysis Engineer II

firefly; Town of Texas (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Dental plan

Vision plan

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Short term disability

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Firefly Aerospace seeks an Analysis Engineer within the Mechanical Engineering Team to analyze spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, and ground support equipment. You will improve designs while ensuring conformance to strength and safety requirements, leveraging test data to validate analysis models.

You will perform hand calculations and FEA, collaborate across disciplines, and help define material properties and design modifications to meet stringent program standards.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or civil engineering and 2+ years of relevant experience, or 5+ years with a Bachelor’s Degree.
• Proficient with analytical simulation software and hand calculations for structural analysis.
• Familiarity with aerospace standard analysis methods.
• Ability to effectively work in a multi-discipline team and provide technical guidance and insight.
• Exceptional comprehension of first principles related to structures and materials.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, and test engineering to develop hardware throughout the design lifecycle.
• Perform structural analyses by classical hand calculation and finite element analysis for composites and metals.
• Perform linear and non-linear structural analysis, eigenvalue buckling analysis, non-linear buckling analysis, and modal finite element analysis using ANSYS and NX Nastran.
• Develop test requirements to ensure adequate data for analysis correlation.
• Validate finite element analysis with hand calculations and test data.
• Review internal and external analyses.
• Work with responsible and systems engineers to define required material properties and part modifications to meet structural requirements.
• Write strength and stability margins to required program safety factors.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Master’s Degree in Mechanical/Aerospace/Civil Engineering

Tools

ANSYS

NX Nastran

Job description

Firefly Aerospace seeks an Analysis Engineer within the Mechanical Engineering Team to analyze spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, and ground support equipment. You will improve designs while ensuring conformance to strength and safety requirements, leveraging test data to validate analysis models.

You will perform hand calculations and FEA, collaborate across disciplines, and help define material properties and design modifications to meet stringent program standards.