Engineer - Mechanical Sr

About Client:
The client is a private aerospace manufacturer and spaceflight services company, which aims to make access to space more affordable and reliable through the development of reusable rocket technology. It has several ambitious projects in progress, including its New Shepard suborbital rocket, designed for space tourism and research missions, and the New Glenn orbital launch vehicle, intended to compete with SpaceX's Falcon rockets in the commercial satellite launch market.
The client has also been involved in developing lunar landers and other technologies to support NASA's Artemis program, which aims to return humans to the Moon and eventually establish a sustainable human presence there.
Rate Range: $80-$84/Hr
Job Description:

• 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 applications.
• 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 B.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace or Civil Engineering
• 8+ years of experience in the prediction/validation of low and/or high-frequency structural dynamics and loads, in addition to finite element modeling
• A 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 3rd party commercial analytical tools)

Experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicles, or automotive in some of the following areas:

• External loads
• Vibro-acoustic analysis
• Thermal Loading
• Analysis using Nastran, Ansys, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, or Optistruct

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 200, etc)
• Experience with ProEngineer Wildfire 4 / Creo Parametric or greater
• Experience with ProEngineer Wildfire 4 / Creo Parametric or greater piping / routing module
• Experience with Human spaceflight
• Experience with composites
• Experience with AIAA S-080 and S-081
• Experience with EJMA Ninth and Tenth Edition

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