Associate, Aerospace Engineer

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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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