Structural Dynamics Engineer

Job description

Structural Dynamics Engineer Department: Vehicle Engineering: Employment Type: Full Time: Location: Redondo Beach: Compensation: $120,000 - $180,000 / year Description: As a Structural Dynamics Engineer at Impulse, your core responsibility will be to determine and validate loads and environments for full vehicles and component subsystems. You will work closely with a fast-paced, agile team that strives to make a high-performance spacecraft from a clean sheet design. Responsibilities: - Determine critical loads during launch, deployment, on-orbit operation, and ground handling - Generate and apply forcing functions for engine-borne dynamic excitation - Determine appropriate environments from vibration, acoustic, and shock sources - Develop and improve finite element models of primary structures and mechanisms - Develop and integrate Craig-Bampton reduced models for launch vehicle integration - Generate rigid-body deployment simulations and validate with deployment testing - Analyze and direct dynamic testing from pre-test analysis to post-test correlation - Effectively communicate results to Responsible Engineers and Designers and collaborate on improvements and solutions Minimum Qu...