Amazon
Sr. Loads and Dynamics Engineer, Amazon Leo
$159K–$215K
Redmond, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years for each of the three basic qualifications; preferred experience areas are generally listed as 6+ years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
About the job
Performs spacecraft structural and dynamic loads analyses, simulations, testing, and validation across the vehicle life cycle, and verifies launch vehicle requirements.
What you'll do
- Perform structural and dynamic loads analyses, multi-body simulations, and FEA across vehicle states.
- Support structural and dynamics test planning, instrumentation, data acquisition, pretest simulations, and post-test analysis and model correlation.
- Deliver modal models for integrated flight simulation and verify compliance with launch vehicle requirements.
What they ask for
- 6+ years working in mechanical engineering or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years of experience in dynamic analysis and testing, including modal, random vibration, impact, shock, and/or acoustics.
- 6+ years of experience with finite element analysis using NASTRAN or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in mechanical engineering or equivalent.
- Experience in coupled load analysis, on-orbit disturbance modeling, multi-body dynamics, modal testing and hardware correlation, and/or listed dynamic analysis and programming tools.
Pay
159,200.00 - 215,300.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
NASTRAN, Craig-Bampton, MSC ADAMS, Wave6, LS-DYNA, MATLAB, PYTHON, FEMAP/IMAT
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