Lead Thermal/Stress Analyst
About The Position
Leidos Defense is seeking a Lead Thermal/Stress Analyst to join their team in Huntsville, Alabama. This role involves designing and analyzing the next generation of defense systems. The analyst will perform stress and thermal analysis to support the design of cutting-edge aerospace and defense programs, collaborating with designers and using Star CCM+ and FEMAP daily. Responsibilities may include working with the production team for hardware installation and verification, and with the testing team to put hardware into action. This position is part of a team of talented engineers working on fast-paced programs with unique technical challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university.
- 4+ years of prior relevant industry experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 2+ years with a master’s degree.
- Direct experience performing stress and thermal analysis in the aerospace or defense industry.
- Demonstrated experience with commercial finite element analysis tools such as FEMAP/NX NASTRAN, PATRAN/MSC NASTRAN, ANSYS, Abaqus, or similar software.
- Proven working knowledge of commercial thermal analysis and CFD tools like STAR-CCM+, Thermal Desktop/SindaFluint, ANSYS, or SolidWorks FlowSimulation.
- Strong technical writing, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Proven ability to thrive in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary engineering environment.
- Capable of working as part of a larger analysis team or working as the sole analyst on a project.
- U.S. Citizenship is required and eligibility to obtain and maintain a Final Secret Clearance.
- Residency in the Huntsville, AL area or willingness to relocate to Huntsville, AL is required.
Nice To Haves
- Fluid lumped capacitance modeling
- Electronics cooling analysis
- Thermal analysis of orthotropic materials
- FEMAP/Nastran
- Coupled thermal-structural analysis
- Bolted joint and weld analysis
- Dynamics analysis (modal, response spectrum, shock, vibration)
- Fatigue analysis
- Composite materials
Responsibilities
- Perform stress and thermal analysis on structural, electronic, and mechanical systems.
- Support critical test activities.
- Produce models, perform calculations, reduce data, and correlate test results for stress analysis.
- Conduct detailed steady-state and/or transient thermal analyses using industry-standard programs.
- Collaborate closely with design and manufacturing teams to create designs that meet stringent performance, manufacturability, and schedule requirements.
Benefits
- Diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide.
- Innovative solutions through diverse and talented people.
- Empowerment of teams.
- Contribution to communities.
- Sustainable operations.
- Commitment to doing the right thing for customers, people, and community.
- Solving the world's toughest security challenges for customers with “can’t fail” missions.
- Opportunity to design and analyze the next generation of defense systems.
- Collaboration with designers.
- Use of Star CCM+ and FEMAP daily.
- Potential to work alongside production and testing teams.
- Part of a team of talented engineers.
- Fast-paced program with unique technical challenges.
- Rewarding milestone in any engineering career.
- Flexibility in schedule and work location (in-office position with remote work as an exception).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
