CareerPlan

Senior Spacecraft Structural Analysis Engineer I - TS/SCI Clearance

RL HeadquartersFull-time$124k–$171k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-10
Citizens onlySecurity clearance required

Core

Define loads and environments, perform detailed simulations and physics-based analysis, guide design, and validate analysis, design, and system performance through test for spacecraft and space components.

Role type

Senior IC spacecraft structural analysis engineer

Builds

Spacecraft, precision payloads, and critical subsystems for national security, defense, and interplanetary exploration missions

Domain

Aerospace / Space Systems / Structural Engineering

Required skills

Finite element model verification and validation, static and dynamic ground test data interpretation, structural and dynamic simulations (static, modal, random vibration, buckling, thermoelastic), mass optimization, material selection, test campaign design and execution

Preferred skills

Additive manufactured parts analysis, sensor selection and data post-processing, structural analysis of composites, nonlinear material simulation

Technologies

NX Nastran, NX CAD, Teamcenter

Responsibilities

Define loads and environments, perform structural analyses of primary and secondary vehicle structures, lead technical projects and programs, implement new theory and tools, support testing of vehicle subsystems

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC