Mechanical/Aerospace Engineer

MERC has an immediate opening in the Aircraft Directorate for an engineer with aerospace/structures experience. Responsibilities include participating in a dynamic team of skilled engineers conducting physics-based analyses and reliability/design calculations.

Responsibilities:

• Design and perform detailed engineering efforts.
• Provide detailed cross-functional engineering communication, design, evaluation, and implementations achieving novel and unique functionality and capability.
• Technical interface with present and perspective customers.
• Provide detailed technical information to program managers including cost, schedule, and technical risk assessments at all stages of implementation through multi-disciplined engineering applications.

Required Qualifications:

• US Citizenship.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.
• An undergraduate degree in a relevant engineering field (e.g., EE, ME, AE, IE, SW, CE, Computer Science, etc.) from an ABET accredited institution and 2 years of directly related experience.; or a Master’s degree in same and 1 year of directly related experience; or a PhD.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with basic principles of statics, dynamics, strength of materials, and stress calculations.
• Experience in using NASTRAN, AFGROW, NX, LSDYNA, ABAQUS, SolidWorks, MATLAB/Python/, LabView, ANSYS, or other modeling tools.
• Experience with structural testing, instrumentation, and data reduction.