Senior Loads & Dynamics Engineer - Blue Ring

We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

- Relocation provided - Travel expected up to 5% of the time - Interviews will include a technical assessment

- Primary and secondary structure loads development for spacecraft and mission payloads - Communicate with structural or design counterparts to convey loads and environment data or implications on design and analysis - Share experience and knowledge across programs for capability development and mentoring - Finite Element Model development and correlation to test data - Modeling, simulation, and verification of applicable spacecraft and engine ground and flight regimes - Support configuration development, trade studies, development of load and environments (vibration/shock)

requirements and verification - Ground and flight test dynamic data measurement and interpretation - Develop and/or maintain loads data book products - Resource-intensive computing, management of large datasets, reduction, and post-processing of data for engineering applications

- Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical, aerospace, or civil engineering - 8+ years of relevant engineering experience - Ability to solve a variety of static and dynamic structural problems using physics-based analytical methods (hand calculations, in-house tools, and 3rd party commercial analytical tools) - Experience with vibroacoustic analysis - Finite Element Modeling experience - Experience working with and generating Craig-Bampton models - Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience in coordinating small to medium-sized teams - Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

- Spacecraft & launch vehicle loads experience - Experience with the following commercial software tools: HYPERMESH, ANSYS, NASTRAN DMAP, ATA's iMAT (MATLAB Toolbox), PYTHON, FORTRAN, WAVE6, SEA+, LSDYNA, ADAMS - Experience with time domain, frequency domain, and/or random vibration statistical analysis - Experience developing custom analysis tools and processes - Experience with fatigue analysis and development - Experience with dynamic (modal) testing and correlation of structures - Experience with instrumentation for ground and flight tests - Experience with mathematical modeling, simulation, and control algorithms - Experience with multi-body dynamic analysis - Experience with high performance computing, management of large sets of data - Active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) security clearance

Base Pay Range for: CA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20 CO applicants is $133,500.00 - $186,898.95 WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20

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- Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

- Stock Options for all regular employees (working at least 20 hours/week)

- Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

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