Description:
Locations:
Fluids/Mechanical Design Engineer Tubing (200 tubes to release in 2 months)
Responsibilities:
- 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
Minimum Qualifications: - Minimum of a B.S. degree in Mechanical Aerospace or Civil Engineering
- 2 years of experience in the prediction/validation of low and/or highfrequency 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 physicsbased analytical methods (hand calculations inhouse tools and 3rd party commercial analytical tools)
- Ability to earn trust maintain positive and professional relationships and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder) or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Experience with aircraft spacecraft launch vehicles or automotive in some of the following areas: - External loads
- Vibroacoustic analysis
- Thermal Loading
- Analysis using Nastran Ansys Abaqus LSDyna 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 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 (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 S080 and S081
- Experience with EJMA Ninth and Tenth Edition