Joby Aviation
Staff Airframe Stress Engineer
$185K–$255K
Santa Cruz, CA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2024
- Experience
- 8+ years required; 12+ years preferred.
- Education
- B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another related discipline; M.S. or Ph.D. preferred.
About the job
Leads fatigue and damage tolerance substantiation, testing, and certification work for aircraft structures, including defining inspection and continued-airworthiness requirements.
What you'll do
- Lead fatigue and damage tolerance analyses, methodologies, and certification documentation for primary aircraft structures.
- Develop and support structural durability and fatigue test programs, from coupons through full-scale campaigns.
- Define inspection intervals, maintenance requirements, and continued-airworthiness programs based on damage tolerance assessments.
What they ask for
- B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or another related discipline.
- 8+ years of aerospace industry experience with significant emphasis on fatigue and damage tolerance.
- Experience substantiating primary aircraft structures and performing crack-growth analyses with NASGRO or equivalent software.
- Experience with aircraft certification strategies and documentation, fatigue testing, inspection programs, mission spectra, and FAA Part 23 and/or Part 27 requirements; ability to work onsite in Santa Cruz, CA.
Nice to have
- M.S. or Ph.D. in a relevant discipline; 12+ years of aerospace industry experience.
- Experience with metallic and composite structures, rotorcraft or other fatigue-critical structures, or military and commercial fatigue and damage tolerance standards.
Pay
USD $185,300 - $254,800/yr base salary
Tools
NASGRO, FAA Part 23, FAA Part 27
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