Loads & Dynamics Engineer III

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At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

We are looking for level II-V applicants with technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to join our team and positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required. If you're excited by providing near-term value, solving novel problems, learning about interesting topics, and completing challenging activities, please apply!

As part of a hardworking team of engineers, you'll work to generate and communicate structural loads to support the development of new vehicles, rocket engines, and test/launch facilities. You will impact these systems by providing high quality engineering support by developing and anchoring system and component loads. You will need to be proficient at cross-discipline interactions to ensure proper loads model assumptions to ensure correct generation of desired outputs. Proficiency in loads analysis, to include physics-based hand calculations, finite element methods, static and dynamic structural analysis, and forcing function development is needed. Experience with simulation, mathematical modeling, data analysis, and technical writing and presentation preferred. We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!

Responsibilities:

• Primary and secondary structure loads development for spacecraft and engines
• Communicate with structural or design counterparts to convey loads and environment data or implications on design and analysis
• Share experience and knowledge across Blue programs for capability development and mentoring
• Finite Element Model development and correlation to test data
• Modeling, simulation, and verification of applicable spacecraft and engine ground and flight regimes
• Support configuration development, trade studies, development of load and environments (vibration/shock) requirements and verification
• Ground and flight test dynamic data measurement and interpretation
• Develop and/or maintain loads databook products
• Resource-intensive computing, management of large datasets, reduction, and post-processing of data for engineering applications

Required:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in mechanical, aerospace, or civil engineering
• 3+ years of relevant engineering experience
• 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)
• Ability to process and present data for engineering applications.

Desired:

• Spacecraft, launch vehicle, and rocket engine loads experience
• Experience with the following commercial software tools: HYPERMESH, ANSYS, NASTRAN DMAP, ATA's iMAT (MATLAB Toolbox), PYTHON, FORTRAN, WAVE6, SEA+, LSDYNA
• Experience with time domain, frequency domain, and/or random vibration statistical analysis
• Experience with launch vehicle, spacecraft, and rocket engine vibroacoustics analysis
• Finite Element Modeling experience
• Experience working with and generating Craig-Bampton models
• Experience developing custom analysis tools and processes
• Experience with fatigue analysis and development
• Experience with dynamic (modal) testing and correlation of structures
• Experience with instrumentation for ground and flight tests
• Experience with mathematical modeling, simulation, and control algorithms.
• Experience with high performance computing, management of large sets of data.

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• Benefits include: Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.

• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

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