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LAYIQ - Senior Dynamics and Loads Engineer at Outpost

Bachelor's degree or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related field.
5+ years of professional experience in loads, structural dynamics, multibody dynamics, or related analysis for aerospace, defense, or similarly demanding applications.
Strong fundamentals in rigid-body dynamics, structural dynamics, vibration, transient response, and mechanical system behavior.
Experience defining and evaluating mechanical loads and dynamic environments for flight hardware or other high-consequence systems.
Experience with coupled loads analysis (CLA) with launch vehicle providers including Craig-Bampton methods.
Experience with finite element analysis tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN, FEMAP, or equivalent, with emphasis on modal, transient, and dynamic structural analysis.
Experience with multibody dynamics tools such as ANSYS Motion, Adams, RecurDyn, Simpack, MATLAB/Simulink, or similar.
Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with design, structures, manufacturing, and test teams to turn analysis into sound hardware decisions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Preferred Experience
Active U.S. Government Security Clearance (Not required, but beneficial).
Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related field.
Experience owning both loads / structural dynamics and multibody dynamics analysis for a vehicle or mechanism development program.
Experience with deployment mechanisms, separation systems, release events, landing systems, or payload delivery systems.
Experience generating design loads and dynamic requirements used to size structures, mechanisms, and interfaces.
Experience supporting test planning, instrumentation definition, model correlation, and post-test analysis.
Experience with fatigue and durability analysis for reusable flight hardware.
Experience in the design, analysis, or test of qualified flight hardware.
Experience working on first-of-kind or highly integrated aerospace systems in an ambiguous, fast-moving development environment.
Experience developing and applying multibody dynamics models for mechanisms, deployment systems, separation events, or other complex dynamic hardware.
Proficiency in scripting (Python/MATLAB) to automate analysis workflows and data post-processing.

Senior Dynamics and Loads Engineer

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