A commercial launch vehicle company with an established flight record. The company is developing a next-generation reusable vehicle.
Ten structures engineers and two test engineers. Chief Structures Engineer is the direct report.
A reusable first stage means the structures team is designing for a fatigue life that expendable vehicles never had to worry about. The cryogenic tank structure sees thermal cycling from -253C to ambient on every flight, and the vehicle has to fly again in weeks, not months. The analysis methods for this regime are not in any textbook.
Structural design and analysis for launch vehicle hardware -- composites and metallics, FEA for flight-critical structures, and the test program that qualifies hardware for flight. This is not a paper-study role. The structures you analyze get built, tested, flown, recovered, inspected, and flown again. Analysis accuracy is verified by flight data, not peer review.
Satellite communications company deploying a LEO broadband constellation. The constellation is in early deployment with an operational phase underway.
NewSpace company developing electric propulsion systems for satellite station-keeping and orbit transfer, with a growing customer base of LEO and GEO operators.
Satellite operations company managing commercial and civil-government constellation operations from two ground control centers.
Senior Launch Vehicle Structures Engineer
$145K - $175K base
