Payload Engineer II

• B.S. in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related engineering field.

• 3+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and qualifying hardware for aerospace applications or high-reliability systems.

• Demonstrated experience with flight-critical structures or mechanisms.

• Experience designing and testing for extreme environments including vibration, shock, and vacuum conditions.

• Demonstrated foundation of design with carbon fiber and metallic structures.

• Proficiency with FEA and classical hand calculations methods to evaluate strength, stiffness, buckling, etc. (Ansys, Femap, etc.)

• Solid understanding of loads & dynamics as they apply to primary structures.

• Experience supporting production builds, resolving nonconformances, and improving producibility.

• Experience defining qualification and acceptance test programs and interpreting test data.

• Proven ability to make sound, defensible engineering decisions under schedule and program constraints.

• M.S. or PhD in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related discipline or 5+ years of experience designing, analyzing, and qualifying mechanical mechanisms for aerospace or high-reliability systems.

• Experience with launch vehicle or spacecraft programs from development through qualified flight.

• Experience in customer facing technical roles.

• Experience driving hardware through a failed test though successful product.

• Familiarity with scripting or programming for analysis, automation, or data reduction.

• Hands on experience working on final stage integration of spacecraft

• Working knowledge of AIAA S-114, NASA 5017b, SMS-S016, NASA 5020, GEVS

Firefly offers outstanding benefits for our employees, including generous health, dental and vision plans with low plan deductibles, parental leave, educational reimbursement, short term disability, and flexible PTO options.

To conform to U.S.

Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S.

of State.

Firefly Aerospace, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Firefly is governed based on merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.