Staff Structures Engineer (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Salary: $164,000–$246,000 USD annually

Company

Develops launch vehicles and interplanetary science systems, including the Terran R rocket, to expand access to orbital and planetary exploration.

What you will do

• Lead the design, structural analysis, and development of spacecraft structures from concept through flight.
• Perform structural and dynamic analysis, including FEA, hand calculations, and margins analysis, across mission phases.
• Create manufacturing engineering drawings with required specifications.
• Collaborate with subsystem teams to ensure structural integrity and system-level integration.
• Manage fabrication and assembly, including supplier coordination, material procurement, and flight hardware acceptance testing.
• Design and execute environmental testing, load testing, and flight verification campaigns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and delivering aerospace primary or secondary structures.
• Ability to take structural systems from blank-sheet concept through qualification and flight.
• Proficiency with CAD and structural analysis tools.
• Hands-on experience with metallic structural design, GD&T, drawing creation, integration, and testing.
• Strong communication skills and experience working cross-functionally in fast-paced environments.

Nice to have

• Technical experience with interplanetary spacecraft design.
• Experience designing avionics enclosures.
• Familiarity with NASA or other spaceflight structural design and verification standards.
• Experience with spaceflight hardware environmental testing and qualification.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with autonomy, ownership, and direct impact on spacecraft, factory, and business development.
• Collaborate across propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, and corporate functions.
• Competitive salary and equity.
• Generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.