Structural Integrity Engineer Principal (Aerospace)

Location: Shelby, North Carolina, United States

Salary: $131,000–$189,200 per year

Company

Designs, manufactures, and supports electromechanical actuation products and systems for aerospace, defense, and industrial automation applications.

What you will do

• Perform static stress, fatigue life, and damage tolerance analysis for aircraft rotary and linear actuation equipment, including gears and related mechanical components.
• Conduct vibration, shock, dynamic, deflection, and thermal finite element analyses.
• Model electric motors, actuator assemblies, motor drive electronics, and printed circuit boards.
• Collaborate with mechanical design engineers to optimize designs for minimum size and weight.
• Present analysis during formal design reviews and document findings in stress and thermal analysis reports.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering.
• 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Must be a US citizen.
• Experience analyzing rotating transmission equipment, including gears, splines, bearings, shafts, and housings.
• Finite element analysis experience with ANSYS is required.
• Familiarity with fatigue analysis, high-strength materials, steady-state and transient thermal simulation, and tools such as MATLAB, Mathcad, NASGRO, and Orbis.

Nice to have

• Experience with Altair/HyperWorks.
• Experience using NX for FEA modeling and gearing or gearbox mechanical design and layout.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid time off.
• 401(k) with employer match and profit sharing.
• Health and wellness benefits.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Employee stock purchase plan, referral program, recognition, and supportive workplace culture.