Two Roads Professional Resources, Inc.
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Structural Design Engineer
Mojave, CA 93501
Posted: 02/19/2021
2021-02-19
2021-05-16
Employment Type:
Direct
Industry: Engineering
Job Number: 82717
Job Description
Structural Design Engineer
Key Requirement: Landing gear experience is required for the Structural Design Engineer position for the XL-1 lunar lander.
The scope of the position includes:
- Providing engineering expertise in the area of design, development, analysis, and test of spacecraft structures
- Working across Clients programs, with a focus on the XL-1 lunar lander for the 2022 south pole mission. Other projects may include technology development and testing programs and VTVL terrestrial testbed flights in support of the lunar mission
- Coordinating with other divisions in the company to develop a full and complete structures solution for various projects
- Providing mentorship and guidance to less experienced technical team members
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design structural components to meet requirements including expected loads and sufficient factors of safety
- Work with every other subsystem to ensure systems-level thinking in the design
- Assist in developing structural tests, conducting the tests, and reviewing test data
- Provide design analysis and test data to other team members
- Develop fabrication procedures and instructions working with the integration team
- Provide technical guidance to fabricators and other technicians
Job Requirements
Required Skills & Experience:
- Experience working on landing gear
- Innovative and open to helping create a Cislunar economy - passionate about space
- Understands what is needed for high-quality spaceflight systems - and also what is not needed
- Knowledge of materials, joints, bonding and how these choices affect the spacecraft mission regarding thermal loads, margin and resiliency, off gassing, and more
- Experience in the life cycle of spacecraft development: design, build, and test
- 5+ years experience in aerospace engineering
- 3+ years in structures design and/or test for spacecraft
- Experience with startups or new space companies
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Strong work ethic and intrinsic motivation
- Hands-on fabrication experience
- Must be able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic highly technical environment
- Will have a large impact on many programs, especially the lunar mission
- Strong working knowledge of industry standard 3D CAD tools (SolidWorks required)
- Strong working knowledge of lightweight space structures that include honeycomb panels, bonded inserts and embedded reinforcements
- Experience in structural assembly and integration and testing
- Knowledge of ASME Y14.5 standard and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T) principles
- Knowledge of Bill of Materials (BOM), manufacturing process, material sourcing and supply chain management
- Experience with classical hand calculations for component sizing for static and dynamic loadings
- Experience in engineering drawing release, PDM and configuration change management
- Experienced in producing component and assembly drawings in SolidWorks
Desired Skills & Experience:
- Min B.S. Degree in Mechanical/Aerospace/Structural Engineering
- Experience with FEA tools, particularly coupled loads, dynamics, vibration, acoustics, and transient loads
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