Senior Structures Design Engineer, Omen
Core
Design and validate structural integrity for Omen, a runway-independent autonomous air vehicle (AAV), using first principles and FEA to support flight testing and hardware development.
Role type
Senior Structures Design Engineer (Aerospace/Defense)
Builds
Omen autonomous air vehicle systems for defense and civilian domains
Domain
Defense technology / Aerospace structures
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, structural testing (static, buckling, cyclic), FEA (ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN), CAD (NX, Solidworks), scripting (Matlab, Python)
Preferred skills
High cycle fatigue analysis, turbomachinery experience, workflow automation development
Technologies
ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN, NX, Solidworks, Matlab, Python
Responsibilities
Perform static and dynamic structural analyses of composites and metallics; Develop and own FEM creation and organization at global and subsystem levels; Collaborate with hardware engineers to drive designs based on analytical results; Conduct and support validation testing including instrumentation and model correlation; Participate in flight testing including setting Do No Exceed values and monitoring loads
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
