Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NDX Human Capital Solutions is seeking a Structural Analysis Engineer responsible for performing structural analysis of hardware. This role involves conducting various analyses to ensure the structural integrity of flight hardware and other systems, while supporting project managers and integrated product teams.
Responsibilities
- Performs classical and FEA (linear/non-linear statics, modal, frequency response, random response, explicit and implicit transient) analyses of flight hardware, oil field components and other systems
- Performs detailed calculations to ensure structural integrity of hardware for failure modes, including but not limited to static, fatigue, fracture, buckling, stability, and creep
- Performs detailed calculations to ensure structural integrity of mechanical joints such as welds and fasteners
- Assists the Project Managers and Integrated Product Teams in the support of meeting customer needs, including preparation of proposals, change requests, design reviews, and meeting other requirements related to the design effort
- Prepares presentations and interim reports based on analysis and test data during the design phase
- Prepares and coordinates formal design approval documentation and coordinates design approval with customers
- Assists in the development of fracture control assessment and fatigue-life analysis of flight hardware
- Uses appropriate analysis techniques, simplifications, assumptions, and experience-based judgments, to solve complex problems
- Documents analysis results and generates reports for hardware certification
Skills
- BS or MS in engineering field such as Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil or equivalent and 10-15 years direct experience
- MUST have 3-5 LS-DYNA experience within the past 5 years
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent analysis, design, systems, and math skills
- Experience with commercial CAD software such as Creo, SolidWorks, or equivalent
- Knowledge of and experience meeting industry standards and specifications such as NASA, AIAA, API, ASME, and DNV
- US citizen or Permanent Resident
- 15-20 year of experience with commercial analysis software packages such as FEMAP, NASTRAN, NASGRO, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, and Mathcad or equivalent
- Experience with classical analysis texts such as Bruhn's Analysis and Design of Flight Vehicle Structures, Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Peterson's Stress Concentration
- Factors, Machinery's Handbook, or equivalent
- Experience with APIs, automation and scripting using VBA, Python, or equivalent
- Experience with product development of components and assemblies involving metallics in the plastic regime, fabrics, polymers, and composites
- Direct experience with Aerospace/NASA Hardware
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