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The role involves conducting structural and thermal analyses of solid rocket motors, supporting design, validation, and collaboration with engineering and manufacturing teams.

Support materials selection, failure analysis, testing, and manufacturing process development for aerospace metals. Author materials specs, qualify suppliers and processes, develop additively manufactured material allowables, and build internal materials lab capabilities.

Lead end-to-end program execution for aerospace/defense projects: manage customer relationships, budget, schedule, risks, and program health; own deliverables, prepare Program Review materials, support technical teams, and provide programmatic inputs for business development. Acts as primary customer POC and ensures on-time delivery.

Provide technical leadership for structural and/or thermal-fluids analysis of aerospace vehicles and propulsion systems. Perform FEA, fatigue, fracture, thermal-stress, CFD, and 1D fluid modeling; validate models against test data; support loads development, anomaly investigations, and nonconforming hardware disposition. Collaborate with design, systems, manufacturing, and test teams while improving analysis methods, mentoring engineers, and supporting safety-critical aerospace systems.

Supports aerospace propulsion system development through requirements definition, verification and qualification planning, risk management, traceability, and MBSE modeling. The role develops system-level plans for solid rocket motors, tracks compliance, reviews test and analysis documentation, integrates engineering models, manages systems engineering tools and processes, and communicates with internal teams, management, and customers. Secret clearance eligibility and U.S. person status are required.

Performs high-fidelity structural and thermal analyses of solid rocket motor components using FEA and analytical modeling. Supports design iterations, material and geometry decisions, test-data correlation, manufacturing feasibility, nonconformance dispositions, failure investigations, design reviews, and continuous improvement. Develops technical documentation and collaborates with design, manufacturing, and test teams across development, qualification, and production programs.

Performs high-fidelity structural, thermal, and dynamic analyses for solid rocket motor components. Develops and validates FEA models using ANSYS, Abaqus, or NASTRAN; correlates models with test data; supports design, manufacturing, qualification, failure investigations, and production. Provides recommendations on geometry, materials, and thermal protection systems, assesses nonconforming hardware, develops engineering processes, and mentors analysis engineers.

Owns instrumentation selection and automated control and data acquisition systems for aerospace propulsion production equipment. Develops cRIO/PXI controllers, LabVIEW applications, PLC integrations, SCADA connectivity, and networked communications. Designs safety-first systems for hazardous fluids, energetics, high pressures, and voltages; supports commissioning, validation, documentation, and equipment standards. Collaborates with manufacturing, test, quality, safety, and product teams from benchtop fixtures through facility-scale systems.

Develops and leads system safety, mission assurance, reliability, and risk-management strategies for rocket motor and propulsion systems. Responsibilities include safety board coordination, hazard classification, risk registers, system-level failure assessments, lifecycle planning, flight-test safety, reliability assessments, and failure investigations. Collaborates with design, testing, manufacturing, mission operations, and program teams, while interfacing with Department of Defense safety review boards.

Perform high-fidelity transient and steady-state thermal analyses for aerospace components and systems under extreme conditions. Develop and validate models using Thermal Desktop, SINDA/FLUINT, and ITRAC; assess insulation, ablative materials, and thermal protection systems; correlate predictions with test data; and support design, manufacturing, testing, failure investigations, and technical documentation.