Staff Structural Analysis Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Lead technical efforts in structural and/or thermal-fluids analysis for aerospace vehicles and propulsion systems.

• Collaborate across various engines, stages, and supporting systems.

• Apply best practices from previous experiences and assist or take charge of verification and validation processes.

• Offer proactive design recommendations.

• Evaluate nonconforming hardware and enhance analysis methodologies.

• Guide and mentor fellow engineers over time.

• Analyze designs through static, dynamic, fatigue, and/or fracture assessments.

• Create and sustain system-level and/or detailed FEM/FEA models while aiding in load development.

• Conduct thermal-structural and/or coupled thermal-stress analyses and assist with vibration/shock evaluations.

• Confirm and validate analytical and/or fluid system models against test data, collaborating with test teams on instrumentation.

• Utilize hand calculations and/or CFD to evaluate fluid dynamics.

• Develop steady-state and/or transient 1D fluid models.

• Work alongside design, systems, and manufacturing teams.

• Assist in anomaly and/or failure investigations and perform root-cause analysis.

• Enhance analysis techniques, workflows, and tools while offering technical guidance.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or a related discipline.

• Approximately 10+ years of experience in structural and/or thermal-fluids analysis for vehicles and/or propulsion systems.

• Robust foundation in structural mechanics and/or fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, and heat transfer.

• Proficient in FEA/FEM utilizing commercial software (e.g., ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN-based solvers).

• Experience in correlating analytical and/or fluid models with physical test data.

• Knowledge of fatigue and fracture mechanics (e.g., HCF SN, LCF e-N, and/or LEFM crack growth/safe-life; familiarity with NASGRO or similar tools is advantageous).

• Proficient in CFD and/or 1D fluid system modeling using commercial or lumped-parameter tools (e.g., ANSYS Fluent/CFX, ROCETS, GFSSP, SINDA/FLUINT or similar).

• Programming abilities for automating analysis and processing data (Python preferred; MATLAB or similar is acceptable).

• Strong written and verbal communication skills; adept at working in a fast-paced startup environment focused on safety-critical systems.

• Must qualify as a U.S. Person (U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident).

• Eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Security Clearance.

🏝️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO - Vacation, Sick, Personal, and Bereavement leave.

• Paid Parental and Adoptive Leave.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• Tax Advantage Accounts (HSA/FSA).

• Employer Paid Short and Long Term Disability, Basic Life, and AD&D insurance.

• Additional Benefit Options Including Voluntary Life and Emergency Medical Transport.

• EAP Program.

• Retirement Savings Plan - 401k with Company Match.

• Equity Grants in the Company.