Design Engineer for Spacecraft Structures

2 days ago

City of Wyndham, Australia beBeeDesigner Full time $80,000 - $120,000

Imagine a future where humanity is out exploring the stars. A future where innovation and collaboration drive us to push beyond what's thought possible. We're actively developing the technologies to make this vision a reality, with the ultimate goal of enabling human life on Mars.

Structural Designer

Responsibilities:

  • 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, and capability
  • Create detailed designs to implement structural concepts and generate CAD models in NX for components, assemblies, and vehicle integration
  • Build finite element models to assess your designs in detail and analyze your structures to prove they meet the needs of the vehicle
  • Apply first-order hand calculations and empirical formulas to assess and iterate on your designs rapidly
  • Validate your designs by building development articles to test individual joints and design elements for strength
  • Perform structural testing on subassemblies and full sections of the airframe
  • Partner with build engineers and technicians to improve your designs
  • Support the assembly of your hardware in the factory, witness your designs being brought to life daily, and watch them take flight and make history

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering
  • 1+ years of engineering experience designing, analyzing, or building structures (internship and school projects experience qualify)

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

  • Experience and passion for creating, tinkering, taking things apart, and building them again
  • Ability to communicate mission-critical messaging effectively, explain complex topics succinctly, and ask questions to verify or defend technical rational
  • Demonstrated experience driving and delivering significant outcomes
  • Proven application of passion and curiosity to learn, build, and complete impactful projects.
  • Experience transitioning products from design to manufacturing and optimizing for high-volume
  • Proven experience designing metallic structures, ideally stainless-steel
  • Ability to make informed executive decisions
  • Experience leading or working on an engineering competition team, i.e. Formula SAE, Baja SAE, RoboSub, Combat Robotics or similar

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Must be available to work extended hours and weekends as needed

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with our organization is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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