Structures Design Engineer

About the role

As a Structures Design Engineer on this space vehicle program, you'll play a key technical role and contribute to shaping engineering standards for pressurized structures, thrust frames, and integrated fluid systems.

You'll serve as the Responsible Engineer for major vehicle subsystems-owning the hardware from initial requirements through design, development, analysis, fabrication, testing, vehicle integration, and ultimately flight. We're a small, driven team, so you'll need to collaborate closely across disciplines with both engineers and technicians to move quickly.

You'll also be hands-on with your designs, with opportunities to build and test your own hardware-so expect to roll up your sleeves and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the shop and integration teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years minimum experience in working in aerospace structures or fluids
• Designed, built and tested hardware
• Demonstrated proficiency with CAD software and analysis software (ANSYS preferred), should be able to talk to multiple examples of both
• Ability to determine appropriate level of work for a problem (from hand calcs to multi-physics finite element solutions) and execute the work accordingly
• Familiarity with launch vehicle design desired (cryogenic propellant familiarity preferred)
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Bachelor's degree in engineering

Responsibilities

• Define the structural and major fluids design of the rocket in coordination with owners of other portions of the vehicle
• Procure and manage all hardware for components and structures that you own
• Work to get your hardware built, tested and integrated onto the vehicle
• Help build design tools and guidelines that will accelerate development of components