Collier Aerospace

Aerospace Structural Engineer

Raleigh, NC

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago

CATIAFEAStructural AnalysisCommunication

About the role

When you're stuck, our employees are always eager to lend a helping hand.
Understanding of overall load paths and an intuitive feel for the efficient use of structural concepts and materials.

We accomplish this with our leading software, HyperX, through software development and engineering support.
As you join our team, you join our company mission and become an integral partner in increasing efficiency and innovation throughout the world.
Requirements Candidates should have comprehensive experience in performing aerospace structural stress analysis and design.
Roles and Responsibilities Ability to learn and use HyperX for preliminary and detail analysis/design sizing optimization of full airframe and space vehicles.
Use HyperX and other software tools to analyze and design customer airframes and space launch vehicles.
Perform trade studies for weight savings and part producibility.
Perform both preliminary and detail design and analysis.
Document design and analyses results.
Ensure project issues are resolved in a timely fashion with your related experience and competence and an ability to create workaround procedures when needed.
Escalate urgent problems requiring more in-depth knowledge to appropriate engineering leads.

Knowledge of panel buckling, local buckling, crippling, and material strength as well as classical in-plane laminate stress analysis.
Bachelor's Required; Master's Preferred (0-2) years' experience - entry level Following aerospace industry practices, capability to perform structural analysis and design with composite materials.
Additionally experience with metals a plus.
Proficiency in applying appropriate failure theories, preparing structural analysis reports, and identifying critical load conditions and margins-of-safety.
Experience with both ply based (max strain, Tsai-Wu) and laminate based (AML, polynomial) strength prediction approaches and associated material allowables, including damage.
Experience with analysis of composite fasteners for bearing and bypass, and bonded joints for out-of-plane interlaminar shear and peel stress analysis, or residual strength energy solutions.

Candidates must be adept at using engineering software tools, learning new software and analysis methods, and working in a Windows OS environment.

Our Why At Collier Aerospace, our mission is to help our customers reach their unique structural analysis and design goals with more accurate results in less time.
We are a team of passionate employees who want to contribute to each customer's goal in the best way possible across space launch, reusable rocket, commercial airframe, business jet, eVTOL, bike frame, and speed boat applications.
Our Culture We foster a highly supportive and collaborative environment where our meetings are a mix of brainstorming, analysis, and humor.
We offer a relaxed and casual dress code to promote a comfortable atmosphere.
Our passion and drive fuel us as we strive to make a lasting impact on our company, customers, and industry.

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