Lead Engineer - Material Mechanics and Durability
Core
Develop understanding of novel materials and material systems for aerospace applications by conducting experiments and translating results into constitutive models and failure criteria.
Role type
Lead Engineer, Material Mechanics and Durability
Builds
Constitutive models, failure criteria, and life prediction methods for fatigue, creep, and fracture of advanced material systems.
Domain
Aerospace engineering, material science, computational mechanics
Required skills
mechanical testing, constitutive modeling, failure criteria development, finite element analysis, high-temperature testing, experimental design, data acquisition, digital image correlation, acoustic emission, infrared thermal measurements, MTS/Instron systems
Preferred skills
phase field methods, component modeling, stress analysis, lifing methods, technology roadmap development, grant writing
Technologies
ANSYS, MTS, Instron
Responsibilities
Perform mechanical testing of aerospace materials (ceramic matrix composites, nickel-based superalloys, ceramic coatings, polymer matrix composites); Develop material constitutive models and implement them in numerical tools; Develop failure criteria specific to material systems and various failure modes; Collaborate with design communities in the development of component models, stress analysis and lifing methods; Serve as a technical resource to resolve key, short-term, high-risk technical issues; Develop and own technology roadmaps for various focus areas in computational and experimental mechanics.
Seniority
Lead, hands-on IC with technical leadership