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Blue Origin · 1 day ago

Senior Mechanical Engineer - Structural Analysis

Denver, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$145K/yr - $203K/yr

8+ years exp

Blue Origin is working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems for the benefit of Earth. The Senior Mechanical Engineer - Structural Analysis will lead structural verification for lightweight, deployable space hardware, ensuring robust architectures and compliance with safety and manufacturability standards.

AerospaceManufacturingNational SecurityRenewable Energy

No H1B

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Perform structural analysis for deployable mechanisms across concept, design, test, and flight certification: static, modal, random/sine vibration, shock, acoustic; establish margins

Build, validate, and maintain finite element models including contact, geometric nonlinearity, buckling, fatigue, fracture risk, transient deployment dynamics, etc

Develop loads and environments (acoustic, random vibe, shock, etc.); derive requirements and margins; author structural verification plans

Develop load paths and stiffness requirements for panels, frames, harness routing, and mechanisms; drive mass optimization while meeting stiffness/frequency/life/reliability requirements

Analyze Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer/Plastic/metallic hybrid structures; material allowables, joints/adhesives, fastener design

Execute dynamic analysis for deployment events; flexible-body multibody dynamics, hinge friction/stiction, latching shock, damping, and tip-off/energy management

Perform tolerance stack and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing assessments impacting structural performance and deployment

Support qualification test planning and execution; define test levels, fixtures, instrumentation, and correlation strategy

Reduce and correlate test data to models; update allowables and model fidelity

Provide inputs to thermal‑structural coupling and deployment dynamics teams

Author analysis reports for program reviews; sign off drawings and change requests

Collaborate with Manufacturing on DFM constraints, handling loads, and tooling stiffness

Mentor junior engineers; perform peer reviews; provide best practice guidance

Work effectively in a scrappy cross-disciplinary R&D environment with a geographically distributed team

Qualification

Structural analysisFinite element analysisCFRP/metal hybrid analysisTest planningFEM modeling techniquesDynamic analysisMaterial selectionMentoringCollaborationProblem solving