# Senior Stress Analyst

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering

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## Description

Leidos' Defense Systems Sector is seeking a Senior Stress Analyst to join its team in creating unique solutions for complex problems. The sector provides a diverse portfolio of systems, solutions, and services covering land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace for customers worldwide.

**Primary Responsibilities:**

- Apply analytical methods, finite element models, simulations, and other engineering tools to develop models, perform structural and dynamic analyses, conduct calculations, reduce test data, and correlate results.

- Partner closely with design and manufacturing teams to deliver high-performance structures that meet demanding requirements for performance, manufacturability, and schedule.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university.

- Possess 4–8 years of relevant industry experience with a bachelor's degree, or 2–6 years with a master's degree.

- Demonstrated experience with commercial finite element analysis tools (e.g., FEMAP/NX NASTRAN, PATRAN/MSC NASTRAN, ANSYS, Abaqus).

- Strong technical writing, presentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

- Proven ability to thrive in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary engineering environment.

- Capable of working as part of a larger analysis team or working as the sole analyst on a project.

- U.S. citizenship and a current Final Secret Clearance,or eligibility to obtain and maintain one.

- Residence in, or willingness to relocate to, the Huntsville, Alabama area.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent degree from an ABET-accredited university with a 3.5 or higher GPA.

- Advanced expertise in:

+ Linear and nonlinear contact FEA   + Application of nonlinear material properties to both FEA and hand calculations   + Integrated multi-physics analysis   + Bolted joint and weld analysis   + Dynamics analysis (modal, response spectrum, shock, vibration)   + Fatigue analysis   + Composite materials analysis

- Thermal analysis

**Pay Range:** $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

## Skills

### Required
- Mechanical Engineering
- Aerospace Engineering
- Finite Element Analysis
- FEMAP/NX NASTRAN
- PATRAN/MSC NASTRAN
- ANSYS
- Abaqus
- Technical Writing
- Presentation
- Cross-functional Collaboration

### Nice to have
- Linear and Nonlinear Contact FEA
- Nonlinear Material Properties
- Integrated Multi-physics Analysis
- Bolted Joint and Weld Analysis
- Dynamics Analysis
- Fatigue Analysis
- Composite Materials Analysis
- Thermal Analysis

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