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Design FEA Engineer

Arcadia, CA
Permanent
Senior Design Engineer - FEA CAE
Are you looking to work for a company that provides an innovative work environment, and your voice is heard? We have a position for aSenior Design Engineer - FEA CAE Aerospace to work onsite with our client in the Glendale CA / Burbank CA area. This is a direct hire opportunity.

Summary: The employee is part of the Design Engineering Team and shall serve as a senior stress analysis and mechanical design subject matter expert supporting a variety of projects. The employee will work unsupervised approximately 75%+ of the time. The product line is primarily high pressure, high temperature pneumatic and fluid lines for aerospace applications. Markets served include domestic and foreign commercial, military, and space.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
  • There are primary job functions:
    • Detailed component design and FEA based stress analysis. Component design consists of conceptual sketches (physical or CAD) which are fed to the drafting team.
    • Significant application of concepts such as design to specification, design for manufacturing, design for inspection, and design for cost.
    • Stress analysis has a heavy emphasis on structural dynamics, fatigue, and nonlinear solutions.
    • FEA tasks range from simple geometry creation and meshing all the way to final analysis report.
    • Works with a diverse cross-functional team of engineers designing and analyzing metallic parts that are produced using a variety of manufacturing methods.
    • Common methods: forming and welding of sheet metal, machining, additive manufacturing, and casting.
    • Regular interaction with internal teams of: Project Engineers, Drafters, Manufacturing Engineers, Quality Engineers, Test Lab Personnel, Contracts, and Sales.
    • Tasks involve a full range of product life cycle including new product development, legacy product support, research and development, and failure analysis.
    • Often necessary to create (i.e. programming) custom design and task automation tools in Excel (VBA), MATLAB, Python, and the API of applicable calculation software.
    • Internal flow calculations and external insulation calculations are common using in-house tools.
    • Travel required is

Job Type: Permanent

Job ID: 254564558