Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Key job responsibilities
Perform structural/dynamic loads analyses, and multi-body dynamic simulations for subsystem and vehicle level trades.
Contribute to spacecraft structural/dynamics test planning, equipment and instrumentation selection, and data acquisition.
Perform analysis using FEA models for all vehicle states: GSE/transport, launch vehicle (stowed), on-orbit states (dispensing, deployments).
Pretest simulations, response limiting/notching definition, and post-test data analysis and correlation/validation of analytical model.
Work with GNC team to deliver linear modal models of principal structural disturbance responses to the integrated flight simulation & similar analysis tools.
Verify compliance with launch vehicle requirements
A day in the life
Loads and Dynamics engineers are responsible for spacecraft level loads analyses across the entire spacecraft life cycle (concept and configuration development, design, test, validation, qualification, and in-service operations). Our engineers work closely with many other technical disciplines and organizations to integrate solutions to complex engineering problems and have both large impact and high visibility.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 6+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- 6+ years of experience in dynamic analysis and testing (modal, random vibration, impact, shock, and/or acoustics)
- 6+ years experience with finite element analysis NASTRAN (or equivalent)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent
- 6+ years of experience with model preparation delivery and interpretation of results for coupled load analysis, including experience with component modal synthesis reduction techniques, such as Craig-Bampton
- 6+ years of experience in on orbit disturbance modeling and multi-body dynamics
- 6+ years of experience with modal testing and correlation of hardware
- Demonstrated experience in several of the following areas: full vehicle qualification, component testing, dynamic analysis with MSC ADAMS/Wave6/LS-DYNA, MATLAB/PYTHON programming, and experience with FEMAP/IMAT
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, WA, Redmond - 159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually
