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Senior Fluids Structural Analyst – New Glenn
| Company | Blue Origin |
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| Location | Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Salary | $140959 – $197342.25 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- Minimum of a B.S. degree in engineering and 7+ years of demonstrated ability with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, or automotive
- Experience with one or more finite element modeling (FEM) packages (ANSYS Workbench, HyperWorks, ABAQUS, etc) required.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
- Understanding of FEM modeling techniques (boundary conditions, bolted connections, contact, verification methods, elastic, and elastoplastic analysis, etc.)
- Comprehensive understanding of material mechanics and metallic failure modes.
- Experience with static and dynamic (modal, vibration, shock, transient) analysis methods.
- Experience with development and/or qualification testing (test requirements, setup/configuration, test predictions, instrumentation, etc.)
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, a U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder) or have been lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Responsibilities
- Documentation of structural analysis to support the release of engineering drawings/documents
- Improving enterprise analysis capabilities such as crafting process automation tools for model creation, analysis checks, and report generation
- Mentoring designers and junior structural analysts in stress/thermal/stability/fracture analysis and practices
- Providing technical guidance on design concepts (risk vs. cost vs. performance)
- Maintain and report on activity schedule, budget, and technical status
- Supporting other teams and team members with inputs for configuration development and trade studies
- Collaborate regularly with manufacturing and other teams
- Presenting to risk/change boards and program chief engineers
Preferred Qualifications
- MS Degree in engineering and 10+ years of experience with aircraft, spacecraft, launch vehicle structures, or automotive
- Proven understanding of fatigue/fracture (NDE methods, fail-safe vs. safe life, NASA-STD-5019)
- Ability to understand and create free-body diagrams for internal and reaction load derivation
- Familiarity with classical aerospace sizing methods (ex: Bruhn, Niu, Roark)
- Analysis of stability critical structures (local buckling phenomenon, global buckling, crippling)
- Bolted joint hand calculations (bolt preload, joint stiffness, shear-tension interaction, insert pull-out, NASA-STD-5020 etc.)
- Proven process automation experience using scripting languages (Matlab, Ansys APDL, Python, VBA, Fortran 77/90+, etc.) is highly desired.
- Experience with analysis and operations of launch vehicles (boosters or upper stages) or spacecraft.
- Experience in writing detailed design and analysis reports
- Experience with analyzing/dispositioning non-conformances
- Experience with Creo (Pro-Engineer Wildfire 4 or greater)
