# Experienced / Senior Ground Loads Engineer

**Company**: The Boeing Company
**Location**: St. Louis, MO
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Level 3: $103,700 - $140,300
Level 4: $126,650 - $171,350
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace

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## Description

The Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) organization is seeking an Experienced / Senior Ground Loads Engineer to support Air Dominance programs in St. Louis, Missouri.

As a member of the BDS Air Dominance Loads & Dynamics (L&D) Capability Team, you will be part of a core engineering team directly supporting production and development programs including F-15, F/A-18, T-7A, MQ-25, and proprietary programs.

**Position Responsibilities**

- Lead in developing air vehicle design criteria for ground loads

- Collaborate with the airframe & subsystems design and analysis engineers to generate integrated aerodynamic, structural, and landing gear models for flight vehicle analysis consistent with a Model Based Engineering (MBE) environment

- Perform ground loads analyses (ground handling, taxi, takeoff & landing, etc.) to support air vehicle design and stores integration

- Define allowable flight envelopes and operational limits

- Develop flight and ground test plans

- Create finite element and multi-body dynamics models and correlate to test results

- Execute ground and flight test programs by the development of test requirements, providing data for pre-test analysis, monitoring testing, data analysis and documenting results, in order to support design and verification of vehicle and components

- Review and approve airframe and subsystems hardware packages for airworthiness and to ensure the air vehicle meets the service environment

- Provide data to support the definition and documentation of structural design requirements for the service life of the product, to ensure company, customer and regulatory requirements are met

- Present engineering to management and customers during program level reviews and other technical meetings

**Basic Qualifications (Required Skill/Experience)**

- Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Engineering Technology (including Manufacturing Technology), Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or non-US equivalent qualifications directly related to the work statement

- 5 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

- This position requires the ability to obtain a U.S Security Clearance for which the US Government requires US Citizenship. An interim and/or final U.S. Secret Clearance Post-Start is required.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Level 4: 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience

- 5+ years of experience with aircraft loads with an emphasis on ground loads

- Active U.S. Secret Clearance

- Experience in one or more of the following: aircraft modeling and simulation, aircraft flight and/or ground testing, multi-body dynamics (MBD) modeling and analysis

- Experience leading teams or projects

- Experience using NASTRAN or ADAMS

- Proficiency in one or more higher-level programming languages such as C, Fortran, MATLAB, python, or similar

- Possess interpersonal communication (written & verbal) skills in a team-oriented environment

**Benefits**

- Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities

- Health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs

- Paid and unpaid time away from work

## Skills

### Required
- Engineering
- Computer Science
- Mathematics
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Data Science
- Manufacturing Technology

### Nice to have
- Aircraft loads
- Ground loads
- Multi-body dynamics
- NASTRAN
- ADAMS
- C
- Fortran
- MATLAB
- python

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