Shield AI
Staff Engineer, Aerostructures Loads - Ranger (R6352)
Seattle, Washington · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 8 or more years; experience may be in air vehicles, rotorcraft, uncrewed aircraft, launch vehicles, automotive, or other complex vehicles.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
About the job
Defines, analyzes, and validates aircraft and component loads for Project Ranger to guide structural design, testing, and certification.
What you'll do
- Develop air-vehicle and component loads analyses, models, load cases, and design envelopes.
- Coordinate with engineering teams to define loads and operating conditions; document assumptions, margins, and recommendations.
- Support test planning, instrumentation, model correlation, structural test execution, and post-test analysis.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 8 or more years of experience performing loads analysis for complex vehicles.
- Experience developing loads models and conducting vehicle-structure loads analyses.
- Strong knowledge of structural mechanics, aircraft dynamics, aerodynamics, inertia relief, load paths, and finite element model interface loads; proficiency with MATLAB, Python, Nastran, Patran, FEMAP, HyperMesh, or comparable tools.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree emphasizing structural dynamics, aeroelasticity, aircraft loads, flight mechanics, or a related field.
- Experience with aerospace vehicle development, test-data-based loads-model correlation, or related structural analysis methods.
Tools
MATLAB, Python, Nastran, Patran, FEMAP, HyperMesh
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