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Salary: USD 110,000 - 140,000 / annual
Gravitics designs and manufactures large-scale orbital structures for commercial space operations and defense/government missions. We are seeking a Structures Analyst to work across the full product lifecycle of challenging assemblies including pressurized structures, launch adapters, mechanisms, and tooling.
You will partner directly with design engineers to validate and optimize primary and secondary structural designs for strength, stiffness, weight, cost, and manufacturability. Your core responsibilities include performing stress, deflection, stability, and margin of safety analyses using finite element methods (FEM) and first-principles hand calculations. You will participate in subsystem test planning, execution, data reduction, and analysis. You will also conduct analysis checks for designers and junior structural analysts in stress/stability/fracture analysis, ensuring adherence to best practices. Additionally, you will prepare technical content and present findings to internal and external customers, and perform technical assessments of damage or out-of-tolerance conditions to provide guidance on repair or use.
This role requires someone who is a giver, not a taker—someone with the ability to make things happen, who is exceptional at several things yet willing to take on efforts in areas of weakness. You will contribute to building the infrastructure for a thriving space economy and laying the foundations for humanity's expansion beyond Earth.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 3+ years of industry experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering
- Bachelor's degree in an applicable field
- Experience with analyzing and dispositioning non-conformances
- Experience with hand calculations including free-body diagrams for internal and reaction load derivation
- Demonstrated knowledge of bolted joint calculations (bolt preload, joint stiffness, shear-tension interaction, insert pull-out, etc.)
- Strong experience with classical and aerospace analysis methods (Bruhn, Niu, Roark, Blodgett, Shigley, etc.)
- Understanding of FEM modeling techniques (boundary conditions, bolted connections, contact, verification methods, etc.)
- Mesh generation (e.g., mid-surfacing) and understanding of element types
- Analysis of stability-critical structures (local buckling phenomenon, global buckling, crippling)
- Experience with development and/or qualification testing (test requirements, setup/configuration, test predictions, test conduct/monitoring, etc.)
- Demonstrated knowledge of vehicle load path and stress analysis of metallic and/or composite structures (pressure vessels, skin-stringer, fittings, sandwich panels, etc.)
- Demonstrated expertise with at least two of the following pre/post/solver codes: SimCenter, FEMAP, Ansys, Nastran, Optistruct, LS Dyna, Hypermesh, Hypersizer, NASGRO, Abaqus, IMAT
BONUS: Deep working knowledge in analysis of welds and heat treat properties.
Note: ITAR compliance required—must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual, or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
