Description
Perform engineering duties in designing, analyzing, and testing airframe and spacecraft structures and components. May conduct basic and applied research on metallic and composite materials, joints, and processes for structural applications. May recommend improvements in structural analysis methods, test articles, fixtures, and inspection techniques.
- • Develop joints, interfaces, and fastening schemes that satisfy load paths and assembly constraints.
- • Evaluate composite layups and metallic alloys for strength, stiffness, corrosion, thermal, and lightning performance.
- • Define structural architectures and load paths to meet customer requirements and certification regulations.
- • Review NDI/inspection data and reports to verify structural compliance with engineering and quality standards.
- • Develop structural design criteria, loads, margins, test methods, quality standards, and compliance plans.
- • Diagnose structural performance issues by analyzing strain, load, fatigue, and crack growth data and inspecting hardware.
- • Lead research and development on advanced materials, joining methods, additive structures, and health monitoring.
- • Direct or coordinate structural engineering, fabrication, modification, and test activities for airframes and components.
- • Plan or conduct static, fatigue, damage-tolerance, and environmental tests on structural articles and subassemblies.
- • Develop finite element and analytical models to size and optimize structures to customer and certification requirements.
- • Write stress notes, substantiation reports, test plans and reports, repair instructions, and technical manuals.
- • Assess structural concepts for feasibility, manufacturability, weight, cost, and schedule impacts.
- • Evaluate and approve suppliers of structural materials, fasteners, and components based on capability and performance.
- • Lead investigation and resolution of in-service or production structural issues and nonconformances.
- • Maintain configuration-controlled structural analyses, allowables, test data, and inspection records.
- • Design or modify structures to improve strength-to-weight, durability, maintainability, and lifecycle cost.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
