Design Criteria Engineer
The design criteria team is responsible for ensuring that hardware and operations meet or exceed mission requirements. This role will be part of an agile system engineering team, facilitating cross-disciplinary action and problem-solving across all programs and engineering staff.
Responsibilities:
* Drive improvements to vehicle design by being closely integrated with hardware teams.
* Provide critical peer review and approval of hardware designs during design reviews; confirm acceptance and qualification test campaigns.
* Develop tools and methods to ensure accurate and well-disseminated design criteria.
* Ensure a cohesive evolution of designs and operations across technical teams.
* Work with a team to perform rapid conceptual design, analysis, and testing cycles on development hardware (may include CAD modeling and testing oversight as needed).
* Derive hardware capabilities enabling operational adaptability while staying within hardware limits.
Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline.
* 1+ years of experience with mechanical design, manufacturing, and/or analysis (internship experience qualifies)
Preferred Skills and Experience:
* Experience with aerospace structure systems: design, analysis, testing, and fabrication for use in high-performance or safety critical applications.
* Experience with fatigue, vibration, and thermal testing of mechanical assemblies.
* Hands-on experience with various industry standard manufacturing tools, techniques and processes.
* Experience with material selection and make vs. buy decisions for system components.
* Experience with solid modeling and finite element analysis software.
* Scripting and data analysis experience using Visual Basic, Matlab, Python, and Excel.
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