Antares Nuclear
Senior Structural Engineer - Space
$145K–$185K
Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil/Structural Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related technical discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Own structural analysis, dynamics, design support, and test verification for space nuclear systems and related flight and development hardware.
What you'll do
- Perform stress, finite element, structural dynamics, and coupled thermal-structural analyses across components through integrated systems.
- Define launch loads, analysis and verification plans, and vibration, modal, and acoustic tests; lead vibration test execution and model correlation.
- Support structural design, hardware development, technical reviews, and root-cause investigations of failures and test anomalies.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Civil/Structural Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related technical discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in structural analysis, stress analysis, structural dynamics, aerospace structures, spacecraft hardware, launch vehicle hardware, mechanical systems, or a related field.
- Strong fundamentals in solid mechanics, strength of materials, structural dynamics, vibration, fatigue, bolted joints, load paths, stiffness, and stability.
- Experience building and running finite element models for complex mechanical or aerospace hardware, and analyzing relevant structural loads and environments.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or higher in a related field.
- Experience with aerospace or high-reliability hardware, structural testing, FEA tools, Python, or git-controlled code repositories.
Pay
$145,000 - $185,000 (base salary); $145K – $185K (compensation; type not specified)
Tools
NASTRAN, FEMAP, Patran, Abaqus, ANSYS, HyperMesh, OptiStruct, Python
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