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Staff Engineer, Aerostructures Loads - Ranger (R6352)

Shield AI· X-BAT Division – X-BAT Engineering - Aerostructures
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Seattle, WA$170k - $260kFull Time EmployeePosted 3d ago

About the role

Staff Aerostructures Loads Engineer to define, analyze, and validate loads environments that drive structural design for Project Ranger. Develop critical vehicle and component loads analyses across flight, ground, transport, handling, and test conditions to enable safe, flight-ready structural designs.

Responsibilities

  • Develop air vehicle and component level loads analyses for primary and secondary structures.
  • Create and maintain loads models, free body diagrams, load paths, load cases, design envelopes, and critical load conditions that inform structural sizing, design decisions, and verification planning.
  • Partner with Aerodynamics, Flight Controls, Mass Properties, Propulsion, and Systems Engineering to define external loads, inertial loads, aerodynamic loads, actuator loads, interface loads, and vehicle operating conditions.
  • Deliver clear loads documentation, including design load reports, interface control loads, critical condition summaries, assumptions, margins, and recommendations for use by structures, test, and certification stakeholders.
  • Support ground and flight test planning, instrumentation definition, correlation activities, structural test execution, and post test data analysis to validate models and refine structural loads predictions.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
  • 8 or more years of experience performing air vehicle, rotorcraft, uncrewed aircraft, launch vehicle, automotive, or other complex vehicle loads analysis.
  • Demonstrated experience developing loads models and performing static, dynamic, maneuver, gust, landing, ground, handling, transport, or test loads analyses for vehicle structures.
  • Strong understanding of structural mechanics, aircraft dynamics, aerodynamics, inertia relief, load paths, free body diagrams, structural sizing inputs, and finite element model interface loads.
  • Proficiency with MATLAB, Python, Nastran, Patran, FEMAP, HyperMesh, or comparable loads analysis, data analysis, and finite element tools.

Skills

Required:Loads analysisStructural modeling toolsDocumentation & reporting

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
  • Salary compensation is influenced by skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. All offers contingent on cleared background and possible reference check. Military fellows and part-time employees are not eligible for benefits.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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