Spaceflight Structures Engineer – Hardware Design

Varda Space; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term cash awards

Job summary

Varda Space is seeking a motivated Structures Engineer to join our El Segundo team. You will support the design, analysis, testing, and integration of structural components for spaceflight systems and reentry vehicles.

This is a great opportunity to grow your engineering skills on real hardware in a fast-paced environment. You’ll work on spacecraft structures, ground support equipment, and tooling, applying engineering fundamentals to solve complex problems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline with 1+ years of related experience.
• Strong understanding of structural design, analysis, and testing.
• Ability to perform structural analyses (hand calcs, FE tools) to show designs meet requirements.

Responsibilities

• Derive hardware requirements and perform initial design trades.
• Evaluate impact of hardware design on packaging, thermal, environmental loads.
• Own all aspects of hardware delivery, both technical and administrative.
• Use hand calculations, FE analyses, and CAD to ensure hardware meets requirements.
• Design and execute development and qualification testing.
• Develop tooling to support hardware integration and testing.

Skills

First principles thinking

Structural design

Writing & speaking

Hands-on hardware

Communication

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Tools

ANSYS

Femap

Nastran

NX (CAD)

Job description

Varda Space is seeking a motivated Structures Engineer to join our El Segundo team. You will support the design, analysis, testing, and integration of structural components for spaceflight systems and reentry vehicles.

This is a great opportunity to grow your engineering skills on real hardware in a fast-paced environment. You’ll work on spacecraft structures, ground support equipment, and tooling, applying engineering fundamentals to solve complex problems.