Principal Mechanical Engineer (Starship)

📋 Description

• Develop design concepts from a clean sheet and size vehicle structures based on flight loads
• Collaborate with peers from different vehicle systems to develop designs that balance mass, cost
• Create detailed designs to implement structural concepts and generate CAD models in NX for
• Build finite element models to assess your designs in detail and analyze your structures to prove
• Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on your designs
• Validate your designs by building development articles to test individual joints and design

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline
• 7+ years of experience with mechanical design and analysis
• Experience designing, analyzing, building, and testing high performance, mechanical systems
• Experience working within interdisciplinary teams to develop solutions to challenging and complex
• Experience with FEA or multiphysics simulation package (e.g. NASTRAN, ABAQUS, ANSYS)
• Experience designing and executing qualification testing