Associate Aerospace Engineer

Job Title: Associate, Aerospace Engineer

Job Code:  45473

Job Location: Huntsville, AL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off   

Job Description: 

• Perform solid rocket motor internal ballistics analysis and propellant grain design for both new product development activities as well as factory support of existing products 
• Examine solid rocket motor hotfire pressure and thrust vs time data to validate models and support anomaly resolution
• Work directly with propellant chemists to determine rocket system designs to satisfy new development needs, and to solve problems that arise during production
• Work directly with system and component design engineers in an Integrated Product Team environment to get quality products out the door

 Qualifications:  

• To be eligible, applicants must be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science Engineering or related field or have completed their Bachelor’s degree within the last 12 months, regardless of age.   

Preferred Skills: 

• Matlab and/or Python for scripting engineering analysis tasks or data processing
• CAD tools exposure: ability to pull up existing parts models and measure and modify features
• Must be able to apply the principles of compressible flow aerothermodynamics
• Familiarity with propulsion systems performance evaluation and modeling
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