Jobs at Analytical Mechanics Associates

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.

Designs and analyzes wind tunnel models, mechanical mechanisms, and structural components at NASA Langley. Responsibilities include wind tunnel model stress analysis using hand calculations, 3D modeling, structural design, and optional simple FEA modeling. Requires a bachelor’s degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering and at least 15 years of wind tunnel design and analysis experience.

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.

Designs and analyzes wind tunnel models for NASA Langley Research Center. Responsibilities include mechanical mechanism design, structural design, wind tunnel model stress analysis using hand calculations, 3D CAD modeling, and simple finite element analysis. The role requires extensive wind tunnel design experience and collaboration within an aerospace engineering design group.

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.

Provide on-site configuration and data management support for NASA AFRC projects: maintain CM plans and repositories, control configuration items and engineering changes, administer CCBs and ACMS/ACCT, run audits (PCAs), track action items and metrics, and train users on CM tools and processes.

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.

Provide on-site project planning, scheduling, risk assessment, reporting, and coordination support for NASA AFRC programs. Build and maintain integrated schedules, track metrics and risks, prepare reports and briefings, facilitate reviews, and ensure compliance with project control processes across multiple concurrent aerospace research projects.