Job Description:
Job Title: Sr. Mechanical Engineer
Job Duration: 6+ months with possible extension
Est. Pay Range: $67- $97 (USD)
Work Type: REMOTE
Overview/ Responsibilities:
Fluids/Mechanical Analyst (200+ tubes to release in 2 months)
- 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
Required Skills/ Qualification/ Education:
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
- 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 Opti struct.
- 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 analysis
- 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 (Opti struct, Hyper Sizer, Nastran Sol 200, etc)
- Experience with Pro Engineer Wildfire 4 / Creo Parametric or greater
- Experience with Pro Engineer 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