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