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Requirements

Candidates should have comprehensive experience in performing aerospace structural stress analysis and design. The candidates should have many of the following capabilities:

• Bachelor’s Required; Master’s Preferred
• 3 or more years’ experience in aerospace stress engineering
• Following aerospace industry practices, capability to perform structural analysis and design with composite materials. (Additionally, experience with metals a plus)
• Understanding of overall load paths and an intuitive feel for the efficient use of structural concepts and materials. Experience performing classical hand stress analysis and finite element analysis (FEA) with either Nastran/Abaqus/Optistruct; FEM meshers Hyperworks/FEMAP/Ansa; and a plus to have CAD competence with Catia/3DX/NX.
• Proficiency in applying appropriate failure theories, preparing structural analysis reports, and identifying critical load conditions and margins-of-safety.
• Knowledge of panel buckling, local buckling, crippling, and material strength as well as classical in-plane laminate stress analysis. Experience with both ply based (max strain, Tsai-Wu) and laminate based (AML, polynomial) strength prediction approaches and associated material allowables, including damage.
• Experience with analysis of composite fasteners for bearing and bypass, and bonded joints for out-of-plane interlaminar shear and peel stress analysis, or residual strength energy solutions.
• Experience sizing structures for minimum weight and practical design experience of composite laminates, including ply drop ratios and layup patterns on complicated surfaces, such as padups around cutouts and bolted joints.
• Strong documentation, communication, and presentation skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ability to learn and use HyperX for preliminary and detail analysis/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.
• Use HyperX and other software tools to analyze and design customer airframes and space launch vehicles.
• Perform trade studies for weight savings and part producibility. Perform both preliminary and detail design and analysis. Document design and analyses results.
• Candidates will be reporting directly to NASA and industry OEM customers and must be able to verify and describe the application of external loadings and their resolution into critical internal mechanical and thermal load paths, and to the resulting optimum design and their margins of safety.
• 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.
• Lead a team of 2- 3 engineers, providing leadership and guidance to less experienced professionals.
• 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
• Orange County, California

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
  • (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

Requirements

Candidates should have experience in performing structural analysis and design. The candidates should have many of the following capabilities:

• US citizen (required)
• In-progress bachelor’s degree in one of the following engineering disciplines;
• Aerospace engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Civil engineering
• Desired course work:
• Statics (required)
• Strength of materials
• Composites
• Finite element analysis (FEA)
• Capability to perform structural analysis and design with metal and/or composite materials.
• Experience performing classical stress analysis, using ‘closed-form’ methods from textbooks (Bruhn, Niu, Roark, etc.).
• Experience with and finite element analysis (FEA) and CAD software (CATIA or Solidworks) is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of structural failure modes, including: material strength, buckling, crippling, etc.
• Strong documentation, communication, and presentation skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Ability to learn and use HyperX (and other industry-standard CAE software) for preliminary and detail analysis/design sizing optimization of full airframe and space vehicles.
• Perform trade studies for weight savings and part producibility. Perform both preliminary and detail design and analysis. Document design and analyses results.
• Candidates will be reporting sizing/analysis results to industry OEM customers and must be able to verify and describe the application of external loadings and their resolution into critical internal mechanical and thermal load paths, and to the resulting optimum design and their margins of safety.
• 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.

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)

Location

• Raleigh, North Carolina

Requirements

Candidates should have experience in performing structural analysis and design as well as computer programming and software development. The candidates should have many of the following capabilities:

• US citizen (required)
• In-progress bachelor’s degree in one of the following engineering disciplines:
• Aerospace engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Civil engineering
• Computer Science
• Desired course work:
• Statics (required)
• Strength of materials
• Composites
• Finite element analysis (FEA)
• Capability to perform structural analysis and design with metal and/or composite materials.
• Experience performing classical stress analysis, using ‘closed-form’ methods from textbooks (Bruhn, Niu, Roark, etc.).
• Experience with and finite element analysis (FEA) and CAD software (CATIA or Solidworks) is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of structural failure modes, including: material strength, buckling, crippling, etc.
• Strong documentation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Demonstrated experience in software development. Experience developing software in a team environment, with version control tools such as Git, is a plus.
• Experience with C#, C++, Python, and/or Fortran is a plus.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Learn and comprehend textbook analysis methods, and transform them into code compatible with the HyperX application.
• Ability to learn and use HyperX (and other industry-standard CAE software) for preliminary and detail analysis/design sizing optimization of full airframe and space vehicles.
• Ability to learn and use HyperX’s (and other industry-standard CAE software’s) scripting APIs to build tools, automate tasks, and improve processes.
• Perform trade studies for weight savings and part producibility. Perform both preliminary and detail design and analysis. Document design and analyses results.
• 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.

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)

Location

• Raleigh, North Carolina
• Newport News, Virginia

Requirements

Candidates should have a 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

• Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Previous experience on software projects in a collaborative environment

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to

• Develop new features and enhance existing functionality of our software, HyperX, using C#
• Projects that may interact with all aspects of HyperX, including WPF interface, 3D graphics, web development, database, and everything in between
• Collaborate with other software engineers and application engineers (users)
• Create unit and integration tests for new capabilities to verify accuracy and ensure quality design

Hard Skills

• C# (or similar object-oriented languages, e.g. Java)
• Git
• Ability to learn new software applications and processes
• Nonessential, but helpful skills:
  • Postgres / SQLite
  • Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
  • Python

Soft Skills

• Strong communication skills and ability to understand project requirements, learn from more senior developers, and iterate with QA and users to complete work to specification
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Strong problem-solving ability

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Involvement with aircraft and spacecraft design projects
• Small company – provides opportunity for involvement in many aspects of the business and gain many new hard and soft skills
• Casual work environment

Location

• Newport News, Virginia