Airframe Structures Dynamics Engineer at Softworld Inc

Palmdale, CA

1-3 Year(s) Contract

Onsite

Active Secret Clearance Required

Special access required to start. P47. - can take up to 6 weeks to obtain prior to starting

$100-$120/hr W2

Job Description:


Seeking an Airframe Structures Dynamics Engineer for the Advanced Development Programs (ADP) in Palmdale, California. A successful candidate will apply technical expertise in developing solutions to aircraft structural design problems.
Responsibilities for this position may include:
- Creation and/or modification of primary and secondary structural parts, assemblies, installations, and interface control models/documents.
- Contributing to developing, testing, and validating aircraft structural dynamics analyses.
- Assisting in creating system requirements, trade studies, statements of work, and test plans.
- Coordination with internal Integrated Product Teams (IPTs), with some interaction with external IPTs and suppliers.
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelor's degree in an engineering technical discipline such as Mechanical, Aerospace, or Aeronautical; 9 years experience with a Bachelor's Degree or 7 years with a Master's Degree
- Experience making/updating Finite Element Models (FEM) in Patran, Hypermesh, FEMAP, or similar
- Experience with running and interpreting Modal Analysis (SOL103), Random Vibration (SOL111), Transient Analysis (SOL112), Non-linear analysis (SOL106/400)
- Experience with developing vibration environments for aircraft (Mission Based Analysis) and maintaining Environment Criteria Documents (ECD)
- Experience with vibroacoustic and data processing
- Subsystem qualification experience (vendor testing, interpreting previous qualification data and making assessment to current predicted environments, delta qual, etc.)
- Proficient in scripting language (MatLab, Python, VBA, C++, etc.)
- Experience with documenting technical results and analysis and presenting to customers in an effective way
Desired skills :
- Proficient in MSC/Hexagon ADAMs for mechanism and landing gear
- Familiar with RCC-319
- Experience with structural analysis for preliminary sizing