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Stratolaunch · 1 day ago

Environments Engineer

Mojave, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$117K/yr - $154K/yr

5+ years exp

Stratolaunch is a technology accelerator focused on hypersonic testing and innovation for national security. They are seeking a Senior, Staff, or Principal Environmental Analysis Engineer to develop environmental test levels and collaborate with various engineering disciplines to ensure mission success for hypersonic vehicles and carrier aircraft platforms.

AerospaceInnovation ManagementManufacturing

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Analytically develop environmental test levels such as random vibration, thermal, and shock

Use existing test standards to aid in the development of test levels

Recommend test level margins, and associated risk, to the program

Process flight test data and incorporate necessary changes into existing test levels and margins

Provide guidance to other analysis engineers across the company

Coordinate with engineers across a broad spectrum of disciplines to understand requirements and engineer technical solutions

Coordinate with suppliers and sub-contractors to ensure technical and programmatic requirements are met

Coordinate with external customers to support range integration, launch license applications, safety documentation and analyses, and payload integration

Create presentations and support design reviews throughout vehicle development

Evaluate risks and risk mitigation plans to determine if the risks and mitigations are appropriate

Regular and comprehensive communication to the program lead on a weekly and monthly basis

Contribute to the integration of complex aerospace systems

Travel, as needed, to support the department and customer meetings

Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity, and fulfillment of commitments

Qualification

Environmental test analysisVibration testingThermal testingShock testingMATLABMIL-STD-810SRS creationPSD creationAerospace system developmentCommunicationAdaptabilityInitiative

Required

Knowledge of, and experience with, one or more of these disciplines: random vibration, thermal, and shock test level predictions

Experience with creating PSDs and SRSs from time history accelerometer data

Experience with environmental test standards MIL-STD-810, SMC-S-016, DO-160, or RCC-319-19

Experience with test level margins such as uncertainty, workmanship, and qualification

Experience with fatigue-based time-scaling equivalence for vibration testing

Experience with performing the analysis to compare vibration PSD to SRS

Knowledge of fatigue damage spectrum and rainflow cycle counting

Excellent written communication and documentation skills

Ability to quickly adapt to changing priorities

Ability to work on their own initiative and prioritize tasking to fit within the business goals

Complex aerospace system development

Experience in Matlab or equivalent

MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook)

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 5-10 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 10-20 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Bachelor's degree (B.S.) from accredited institution and 20-25 years of engineering experience, OR equivalent combination of education and experience

Preferred

Experience with Tom Irvine's Vibration data techniques, methods, and code

Experience with flight termination system requirements such as test level margins

Experience with Ground Vibration Testing (GVT)

Experience with being on a Mission Control Center console during flight operations

Security clearance

Symvionics IADS

Finite Element Analysis tools

Familiarity with configuration management systems – Jira (preferred)

Benefits

Relocation eligible to local area – Mojave, CA

9/80 schedule

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

Company

Stratolaunch

Stratolaunch designs, manufactures, and launches aerospace vehicles and technologies to fulfill several important national needs, including the need for reliable, routine access to space and the need to significantly advance the nation’s ability to design and operate hypersonic vehicles.

Founded in 2011

Huntsville, Alabama, USA

201-500 employees