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Requirements

Candidates should have a comprehensive computer science or software engineering background equipping them to succeed in our company through developing our software, HyperX®: a Windows .NET desktop application, written in C# and used by amazing companies all over the world in order to do amazing things.

Candidates should have many of the following capabilities and related work experience:

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a software engineering position

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop new features and enhance existing functionality of our software, HyperX
• Work on all aspects of HyperX, including WPF interface, 3D graphics, web development, database, and everything in between
• Collaborate with application engineers and respond to customer needs
• Create and maintain a suite of unit and integration tests to verify correctness and ensure quality design

Hard Skills

• C# (or similar language, e.g. Java)
• RDMBS (Postgres / SQLite)
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), or similar front-end technology
• Strong ability and interest in designing and implementing user interfaces
• Proficiency to learn new software applications and processes
• Proficiency writing unit and integration tests
• Nonessential, but helpful skills:
  • Python
  • C++
  • Fortran

Soft Skills

• Ability to learn and work on all aspects of HyperX Software
• Eagerness to be self-motivated and seek out new innovative functions or solutions for our software
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong ability to work independently and collaborate on teams when needed
• Adaptability as company and customer needs shift and grow
• Strong problem-solving ability

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and benefits offered
• Involvement with aircraft and spacecraft design projects
• Small company – provides opportunity for involvement in many aspects of the business
• Casual work environment

Location

• Newport News, VA
• Full-time Remote Work negotiable

Candidates should have experience conducting manual and/or automated testing of software for stability and performance, developing and executing test plans, and documenting results for stakeholders.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM-related field
• 2+ years of experience in manual and/or automated software testing

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Learn the details of our software product, HyperX, to a high degree of detail
• Document bugs and issues found in sufficient detail for developers to reproduce
• Develop, maintain, execute, and report results of test plans to ensure software robustness and performance
• Identify opportunities to continually streamline and automate testing procedures to increase team efficiency
• Assist in the disposition of bugs reported by users to determine repeatable steps that may be provided to a developer

Hard Skills

• Excellent computer skills, including previous experience using complex software and ability to learn how to use new tools
• Experience and basic competency with scripting / programming languages

Soft Skills

• Ability to learn and understand how customers use our software in real applications
• Excellent attention to detail, organization, and accuracy
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, to inform stakeholders of progress and results
• Strong ability to work independently and collaborate on teams when needed
• Eagerness to be self-motivated and seek out innovative opportunities to improve QA processes
• Intuition and problem-solving ability to identify cases where the software does not perform as expected

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and benefits offered
• Small company – provides opportunity for involvement in many aspects of the business
• Casual work environment

Location

• Raleigh, NC or Newport News, VA

Requirements

Candidates should have comprehensive composites modelling, simulation, design and analysis experience and many of the following capabilities and related work experience.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s required; Master’s or PhD preferred in related field (Aerospace / Mechanical engineering)
• 1-3 years experience in composites industry is preferred (or equivalent time in grad school)

Hard Skills

• Experience with performing classical stress analysis and finite element analysis (FEA) with Nastran, and/or Abaqus
• Proficiency in applying appropriate failure theories, preparing structural analysis reports, and identifying critical load conditions and margins-of-safety / reserve factor
• Experience with sizing structures for minimum weight and practical design experience of composites, including typical layup rules and manufacturing constraints
• Knowledge of all types of composite manufacturing processes and their suitability for different types of structures and environments
• Excellent knowledge of Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
• Basic knowledge of scripting or programming language: c#, Python, java, Matlab
• Strong ability to produce and consume technical papers (conference papers, journal articles, project reports, etc)

Soft Skills

• Ability to learn and use HyperX for analysis and design optimization of composite structures
• Candidates must be adept at using engineering software tools, learning new software and analysis methods, and working in a Windows OS environment
• Ability to innovate and create new processes to ensure effective workflows in a timely fashion. Escalates urgent problems requiring more in-depth knowledge to appropriate internal resources
• Excellent documentation, communication and presentation skills

Tasks

• Support research projects by pursuing new composite technology areas for HyperX: understand needs for new technology, determine impact on HyperX software, generate solutions, test, report progress to customer
• Optionally, participates in overall systems testing and writes technical specifications to design or redesign of software features
• Optionally, candidates will be reporting design optimization results directly to industry customers
• Some travel required to customer facilities and conferences

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary and benefits offered
• Exposure and involvement with composite structure design projects across the entire industry

Location

• Newport News, VA
• Southern Maryland/Northern Virginia

Requirements

Candidates should have comprehensive experience in performing aerospace structural design with CAD. The candidates should have many of the following capabilities:

• Bachelor’s Required; Master’s Preferred (hiring for two positions)
  • (2-7) years’ experience – mid level
  • (7-20) years’ experience – senior level
• Proficient in running CAD software Catia v5/v6 and 3DX. NX CAD a plus.
• Competent at implementing aerospace industry practices for CAD model setup.
• Practical design experience with composite laminates, including ply drop ratios and layup patterns on complicated surfaces, such as padups around cutouts and bolted joints.
• Competent at modeling airframe wing and fuselage composite structures, with particular emphasis on sandwich and stiffened panels, including ply drop details around the stiffener
• Experience with CAD modeling of composite fasteners and edge band padups
• Strong documentation, communication and presentation skills

Roles and Responsibilities

• Along with the CAD software, ability to learn and use HyperX for preliminary and detail design sizing optimization of full airframe and space vehicles. Candidates must be adept at using engineering software tools, learning new software and analysis methods, and working in a Windows OS environment.
• Work along with HyperX aerospace structural stress engineers to design customer airframes and space launch vehicles, and to get HyperX sizing results into the CAD.
• Ensure project issues are resolved in a timely fashion with your related experience and competence and an ability to create workaround procedures when needed. Escalate urgent problems requiring more in-depth knowledge to appropriate engineering leads.
• Participate in overall HyperX software testing and provide your suggestions to development and modification of the software.
• Midlevel engineers will lead a team of 2- 3 engineers, providing leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals.
• Senior engineers will lead a group of other midlevel engineers and will technically, and in a business sense, represent the company and the HyperX software favorably in customer settings.
• US citizen

Benefits

• Jump start your career with opportunity to learn from and work closely with other leading engineers
• Exposure and involvement with many companies and their current aircraft designs for (commercial transports/UAM eVTOLS/military planes), and space launch designs for (commercial rockets/space tourism vehicles/demonstrator X planes)
• Some travel required to customer facilities
• Highly competitive salary and benefits offered

Location:

• Raleigh, North Carolina