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Blue Origin · 1 month ago

Loads & Dynamics Engineer III

Reston, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$117K/yr - $164K/yr

3+ years exp

Blue Origin is a company focused on developing reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems. The Loads & Dynamics Engineer III will generate and communicate structural loads to support the development of new vehicles and rocket engines, ensuring high-quality engineering support and cross-discipline interactions.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

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

Qualification

Loads analysisFinite Element ModelingDynamic structural analysisMathematical modelingHYPERMESHANSYSNASTRANPYTHONFORTRANVibroacoustics analysisData presentationTechnical writingLeadership skills

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

Preferred

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