Senior Loads and Dynamics Engineer, Project Kuiper

6 days ago

Redmond, United States Amazon Kuiper Manufacturing Enterprises LLC Full time
Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of 3,236 satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

To deliver on that mission, Amazon is looking for talented candidates who combine superb technical, research and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right things done quickly and effectively. We’re looking for people who innovate and love solving hard problems and building hardware. You will work hard, have fun, and make history

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.
- Create & maintain 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.
- Pointing accuracy trades; build dynamic disturbance models from spacecraft MMAs, and incorporating predictions of thermal profile transients, to identify and mitigate jitter effects on pointing precision.

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

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.

About the team
As part of a small, passionate and accomplished team of experts, you will provide technical expertise and analytical solutions to support the development and qualification of for various spaceflight systems.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Redmond, WA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in dynamic analysis and testing (modal, random vibration, shock, and/or acoustics)
- 3+ years experience with finite element analysis NASTRAN (or equivalent)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ 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;
- 5+ years of experience in on orbit disturbance modeling and multi-body dynamics;
- 5+ years of experience with modal testing and correlation of hardware
- Masters in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or related field;
- Demonstrated experience in several of the following areas:
- Experience with full vehicle qualification for flight;
- Experience testing components and vehicles.
- Dynamics analysis with MSC ADAMS, LS-Dyna, or Wave6;
- Programming skills in Matlab/Python
- Knowledge of FEMAP, IMAT and Matlab

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