Job Overview:
As a Structures Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and developing structural concepts for vehicle systems.
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Responsibilities:
* Develop design concepts from a clean sheet and size vehicle structures based on flight loads.
* Collaborate with peers from different vehicle systems to develop designs that balance mass, cost, and capability.
* Create detailed designs to implement structural concepts and generate CAD models in NX for components, assemblies, and vehicle integration.
* Build finite element models to assess your designs in detail and analyze your structures to prove they meet the needs of the vehicle.
* Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on your designs rapidly.
* Validate your designs by building development articles to test individual joints and design elements for strength.
* Perform structural testing on subassemblies and full sections of the airframe.
* Partner with build engineers and technicians to improve your designs.
* Support the assembly of your hardware in the factory, witness your designs being brought to life daily, and watch them take flight and make history.
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Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
* 1+ years of engineering experience designing, analyzing, or building structures (internship and school projects experience qualify).
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PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
* Experience and passion for creating, tinkering, taking things apart, and building them again.
* Ability to communicate mission-critical messaging effectively, explain complex topics succinctly, and ask questions to verify or defend technical rational.
* Demonstrated experience driving and delivering significant outcomes.
* Proven application of passion and curiosity to learn, build, and complete impactful projects.
* Experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing and optimizing for high-volume.
* Proven experience designing metallic structures, ideally stainless-steel.
* Ability to make informed executive decisions.
* Experience leading or working on an engineering competition team, i.e. Formula SAE, Baja SAE, RoboSub, Combat Robotics or similar.
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Additional Requirements:
* Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
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ITAR Requirements:
* To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.*1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.*1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here.