Jobs at Analytical Mechanics Associates

Develop and apply aeroacoustic prediction methods for advanced aircraft concepts, including Blended Wing Body aircraft. Lead acoustic analyses, validate prediction processes, support NASA flight-test planning, define instrumentation and test matrices, analyze flight-test data, and present technical findings. Requires a Ph.D. in Aeroacoustics, expertise with NASA ANOPP and ANOPP2, aircraft noise prediction experience, strong technical writing, occasional travel, and U.S. citizenship or permanent residency.

Conduct applied AI/ML research supporting NASA missions and federal business operations. Collaborate with scientists, engineers, and civil servants to solve complex problems using NASA platforms and cloud technologies, including Google Cloud Platform, K-Cluster, and Azure. The role requires advanced education, relevant experience, strong technical and problem-solving abilities, and effective communication in a multidisciplinary federal research environment.

Develop and architect physics-based modeling and simulation software for advanced space nuclear systems. Lead software engineering standards, architecture, code reviews, testing, verification and validation, release management, CI/CD, and documentation. Refactor scientific codes, build multiphysics simulation interfaces, ensure reproducibility, and collaborate with NASA and multidisciplinary engineering teams. The role requires C++, Python, engineering software development, numerical methods, high-performance computing, parallel processing, and the ability to validate physics-based models.

Supports payroll, accounts payable and receivable, general ledger maintenance, reconciliations, accruals, journal entries, financial reporting, audits, and month-end close activities. Ensures compliance with accounting policies and payroll regulations, resolves discrepancies, collaborates with internal departments, and maintains accurate financial records. The role is hybrid, requiring one to two days onsite weekly.

Advance aerospace and space exploration missions through systems engineering, propulsion system design, trade studies, performance analysis, requirements management, risk assessment, interfaces, margins, uncertainty analysis, and verification planning. The role supports orbital mechanics, trajectory analysis, spacecraft design, vehicle integration, subsystem assessments, technology maturation, and modeling and simulation for NASA-related missions.

Executes financial processes across multiple government projects, including subcontractor invoicing, accruals, purchase orders, cost tracking, reconciliations, reporting, budget forecasting, and month-end close support. The role coordinates with project managers, vendors, subcontractors, and internal finance functions; reviews task orders and modifications; manages Costpoint data; identifies discrepancies; and ensures project costs remain within funding and budget limits.

Manage the full life cycle of federal, commercial, prime, subcontract, task order, and purchase agreements. Responsibilities include contract compliance, FAR and DFARS interpretation, proposal support, risk assessment, negotiations, subcontractor evaluations, funding administration, modifications, closeout, and coordination with government customers, program teams, finance, and business partners. The role also maintains contract files and supports CPSR requirements.

Lead system safety and hazard management for NASA flight research activities. Develop safety plans, maintain hazard databases and continuous risk management, analyze reliability and maintainability, facilitate safety working groups, support design and flight readiness reviews, and present risks to NASA management and safety boards. Apply FMEA and fault tree analysis to identify and mitigate hazards affecting personnel, hardware, and mission success.

Leads and mentors electrical engineers designing, integrating, testing, and troubleshooting electronic systems for flight missions. Responsibilities include circuit, power, mixed-signal, digital, and harness design; integration of cameras, lasers, GPS, storage, computation, and scientific instruments; Altium and PSPICE use; PCB fabrication coordination; assembly; and lifecycle delivery from concept through manufacturing and testing.

Lead aeroelastic and unsteady-aerodynamic analysis for a flight simulator’s real-time flight dynamics module. Model and validate static and dynamic aeroelastic effects, flutter, buffet response, structural dynamics, and loads across subsonic and transonic regimes. Develop reduced-order models and aeroelastic corrections, coordinate with CFD and structural engineering teams, define verification and validation plans, mentor engineers, and provide technical evidence supporting simulator qualification and regulatory acceptance.

Mechanical Engineering Intern will support development of lunar deployment mechanisms, flight hardware, and ground support equipment at NASA Langley Research Center. Responsibilities include creating parametric Creo designs, performing preliminary structural sizing using beam theory and strength of materials, optimizing mass, and producing GD&T drawings and assembly documentation. The intern will communicate design decisions and present requirements, layouts, and plans to engineering and project management teams.

Designs, models, analyzes, documents, manufactures, and tests mechanical components and mechanisms for aerospace and spaceflight hardware. Responsibilities include creating CAD models and engineering drawings, performing sizing and design trade studies, preparing procedures and reports, guiding manufacturing, and supporting assembly, integration, and testing. The role collaborates with engineers, analysts, program managers, and fabrication teams while ensuring compliance with NASA drafting, acceptance, configuration-management, and spaceflight hardware standards.

Coordinates contract operations with program leadership, tracking activities, plans, reports, records, procurements, subcontracting, personnel, fiscal matters, travel, logistics, training, and equipment. Identifies operational issues, recommends solutions, supports process improvements, maintains stakeholder relationships, and ensures schedules, documentation, and spending align with program plans.

Employer invites students and recent graduates to submit resumes for internships and entry-level roles. Recruiting reviews submissions year-round and contacts candidates when positions match; opportunities span internships, summer programs, and full-time roles after graduation.

Support NASA Langley Research Center through applied research and engineering across aviation transformation, earth intelligence, and space exploration. Work spans fundamental research to flight‑rated hardware design, contributing to long‑term NASA missions and programs. Candidates at all experience levels encouraged; positions will be onsite at Langley, VA.

Develop, update, and validate physics-based and identified flight-dynamics models for crewed and uncrewed rotorcraft (including FLRAA and UH-60 variants). Use tools like HeliUM, GenHel, CIFER, and Simulink to generate linear models, support real-time piloted simulations, assist software development and validation, attend reviews, and communicate results via presentations and reports.