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Who We Are

Special Aerospace Services (SAS) is a dynamic and rapidly growing aerospace company. Ready to be a critical part of one of the most exciting times in space exploration? What started in 2007 with a small team of visionaries is now a collaborative team of 100+ tenacious and steadfast specialists acting as trusted partners to clients in the space industry. Our mission is to further humankind’s dreams in air and space, and together we are driven to innovate across engineering and mission-critical hardware.

Your Role

SAS’ Engineering team is critical to executing our missions. As a Structural Analyst, you will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention toward safe and repeatable space flight. Your analysis and recommendations will shape the products that will be landing on the moon!

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Performing structural analysis on pressurized components for Lunar Transportation vehicles.
• Provide expert guidance on structural design and quantify performance over a variety of environments.
• Provide structural design analysis and design feedback that will be used to verify requirements and optimize performance.
• Covering a variety of structural analysis of fluid systems hardware and secondary structure

To qualify for this role, it is required the successful candidates have the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or equivalent
• 5+ years of relevant experience with the structural analysis of pressurized components and systems, including tubing/piping, pressure vessels, and valves
• Experience in the use of FEA analysis tools (ANSYS preferred) and the validation of structural analysis models
• Familiar with 3D CAD tools (Creo preferred)
• Experience with a wide variety of manufacturing methods, material selection, testing, characterization & allowable development
• Experience analyzing components in high-vibration environments
• Experience with classical hand calculations for stress analysis based on common aerospace reference materials (Shigley, Bruhn, Roark, etc.)

In addition, we are most interested in candidates who also have the following experience:

• Proficient with one or more of the following analysis codes: Ansys, Nastran, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, Optistruct
• Design experience to provide feedback for design iteration and optimization
• Experience with cryogenic and elevated temperature systems and the applicable analysis approaches
• Experience with fatigue analysis and linear-elastic fracture mechanics (hand calculations, NASGRO, etc.)
• Working knowledge of metallic and composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs)
• Demonstrated process automation experience using scripting (VBA, MATLAB, Python, Fortran, etc.)How You Will Be Rewarded

How You Will Be Rewarded

The annual salary for this role is $72,000 to $187,000. Compensation depends on the candidate’s work experience, education/training, and related skills.

SAS provides a total rewards approach to compensation, providing incentives and benefits far beyond base salary.

• Health, Vision, and Dental plans with generous employer contribution
• Employer-provided disability and life insurance benefits
• Fitness reimbursementUnlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) program
• Pet Insurance401K program with great employer match
• Corporate Giving

Applicants must be U.S. Citizens. Applicants are subject to a background check in a Drug-Free Workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.