Building resilient in-space supply lines. Backed by Space Capital.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Structural Analysis Engineer with 5+ years of experience to perform structural analysis across spacecraft, payload, and deployment-system hardware.
What they're looking for
- Conduct and document static, thermo-mechanical, dynamic, vibration, buckling, fatigue, and fracture analyses using finite element analysis and first-principles methods
- Develop structural models to predict stress, deformation, dynamic response, failure modes, and margins of safety
- Define load cases and operating environments for spacecraft and flight hardware
- Perform hand calculations and analytical modeling to validate results and guide design decisions
- Collaborate with design, manufacturing, systems, and test engineers to develop lightweight, reliable, and manufacturable hardware
- Support structural test planning, instrumentation, execution, data processing, and correlation of models to test results
More about this role
A New Paradigm For Space Operations.
Space Kinetic is a dual use space technology startup building a completely new architecture for space operations – one that brings the advantages of proliferated drone technology (low-cost, operationally flexible, attainable, distributed) to space missions while reducing the ecosystem's reliance on consumable fuel. In a world where many companies are focused on incrementally improving the status quo, we are focused on creating something entirely different – an architecture underpinned by new first principles to meet the opportunities and challenges of the third space age head-on. Our goal is to move away from one-to-one space architectures – where each satellite in a constellation has one (or a small # of) primary payloads attached to the bus -- and unlock a ‘one-to-many’ system, where each satellite has a large number of payloads which can be deployed from their host spacecraft at high velocities without firing a thruster.
This is not a role for someone looking for a traditional 40-hour work week. Space Kinetic is building ambitious, first-of-its-kind technology, and that requires urgency, ownership, and a high level of commitment to changing...
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