Responsibilities :
- Design of various pressure vessel types, and shapes to accommodate vehicle space allocation and integration envelope.
- Design of fluid lines and flex elements for cryogenic and space application.
- Drawing generation, including tolerance and GD&T setup.
- Ownership of design release cycle, including drawings release, and DFM reviews.
- Analysis of primary and secondary spacecraft pressure vessels
- Integration of structural analysis with loads and dynamics environments
- Finite Element Model development, refinement, validation, and correlation to tests
- Strength checks and analysis report generation
- Test and verification plan and report generation
- Support configuration development and trade studies
Minimum Qualifications :
- Minimum of a degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or Civil Engineering
- years of experience in the prediction / validation of low and / or high-frequency structural dynamics and loads, in addition to finite element modeling
- Solid foundation of structural static / dynamic fundamentals
- Passion for spacecraft structural / environmental loads development / validation
- Ability to solve a variety of static and dynamic structural problems using physics-based analytical methods (hand calculations, in-house tools, and rd party commercial analytical tools)
- Experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, or automotive in some of the following areas :
o External loads
o Vibro-acoustic analysis
o Thermal Loading
o Analysis using Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, or Optistruct
Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
Preferred Qualifications :
- COPV Pressure Vessel design and analysis
- Metallic Pressure Vessel design and analysis
- Fluids Lines design and analysis
- Flex Elements design and anlysis
- Composite design and analysis skills in any thermoset, thermoplastic, metal matrix and ceramic matrix composites
- Manufacturing methods, material selection, testing, characterization & allowable development
- Experience testing materials, joints, components and vehicles
- Structural optimization using standard industry codes (Optistruct, HyperSizer, Nastran Sol , etc)
- Experience with ProEngineer Wildfire / Creo Parametric or greater
- Experience with ProEngineer Wildfire / Creo Parametric or greater piping / routing module
- Experience with Human spaceflight
- Experience with composites
- Experience with AIAA S- and S-
- Experience with EJMA Ninth and Tenth Edition
30+ days ago