Dynamics Engineer

Stratolaunch • Mojave, CA

2d • $142,000 - $174,700 • Hybrid

About The Position

Stratolaunch is a technology accelerator that engineers operationally realistic testing at Mach 5+. Our air-launched, Talon testbeds are reusable, cost-effective platforms that enable routine access to the hypersonic environment. We deliver flight data critical to validating system performance and achieving rapid technology deployment. Together with our customers, we drive innovations that are imperative to advancing national security.
To help achieve these efforts, Stratolaunch is seeking a Dynamics Engineer to contribute to the development of an air-launched, hypersonic flight vehicle. This position includes owning the aeroelastic analysis, ground vibration testing, model correlation, and aeroelastic flight test of the hypersonic vehicle. This position also includes contributing to the vehicle’s structural and GNC technical performance, including meeting design and mission requirements, resolving technical challenges, and implementing technology upgrades that improve the competitive basis of the vehicle’s architecture.

Requirements

• Strong fundamental structures and/or dynamics background
• Experience with the design, modeling, and analysis of composite structures using FEMAP/Nastran analysis software
• Experience with aeroelastic modelling using NASTRAN or ZAERO
• Strong data processing and modeling skills with python or MATLAB
• Experience with aeroelastic ground testing and/or model correlation
• Experience with vehicle loads development
• Experience with vehicle or structural ground testing
• Ability to communicate technical challenges and guidance to varied audiences to present technical solutions and resolve questions
• Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals
• Complex aerospace system development
• Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities
• MS Office (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook)
• NASTRAN
• MATLAB
• ZAERO
• IADS
• 3D CAD experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience with hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicle development
• Experience with Python, C++, Matlab, etc. for data analysis automation and numerically modelling and simulation
• Experience with flutter flight test and analysis
• Experience with air-launched vehicle development
• Experience with system dynamics closed loop feedback and control design as well as aeroservoelastic analysis
• Experience with FAR25 loads
• Active S, TS, and/or SCI security clearance
• Configuration management systems such as JIRA, GIT, JAMA, etc.
• FEMAP
• Experience with Siemens NX and Teamcenter

Responsibilities

• Lead the aeroelastic development of a hypersonic vehicle (analysis, ground test, and flight test)
• Perform aeroelastic analysis and report flutter margins against program requirements
• Perform aeroservoelastic analysis of hypersonic vehicle, as required, to support the GNC team
• Create and maintain models required to support other teams, such as a structural flex model for the GNC team
• Lead and perform ground tests, as required, to anchor the flutter model and perform other structural dynamic tests
• Develop instrumentation requirements for your domain and communicate them to the instrumentation engineers
• Support flight test and post-test analysis of the hypersonic vehicle, as required
• Evaluate vehicle loads and environments as it pertains to your models and analysis (such as gust, vibration, acoustics, etc.)
• Contribute to the structural FE model of the airframe using finite element analysis tools
• Create analysis reports and design review content to support the documentation and technical review of your area
• Contribute to vehicle loads development, as required
• Participate in the gathering of test data from other subsystems, as it pertains to your model inputs and analysis
• Evaluate risks and develop risk mitigation plans for structural dynamics
• Regular and comprehensive communication to the Structures, Aerodynamics, and GNC Lead
• Travel, as needed, to support the company
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision, prescription drugs)
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave
• 50% company match per contributed dollar into 401(k) savings plan, up to $11,500
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior