Job Title: Stress Analyst

Job Description

This role focuses on performing advanced stress and dynamics analysis for high-reliability mechanical systems and components using finite element analysis (FEA), hand calculations, and sound engineering judgment. You will contribute to the mechanical design, analysis, and evaluation of complex systems, informing design, manufacturing, construction, and licensing strategies for advanced mechanical and clean energy systems. The position involves working with both metallic and non-metallic materials, developing mechanical concepts and processes, and ensuring that systems meet stringent technical specifications, industry codes, and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Execute mechanical design, analysis, and evaluation of assigned projects using sound engineering principles while adhering to established business standards, practices, procedures, and product or program requirements.
• Perform detailed structural analysis to inform the design, manufacturing, construction, and licensing strategies of advanced mechanical systems and high-reliability components.
• Use engineering tools, including FEA simulation software, hand calculations, and engineering judgment, to assess stress, deformation, degradation behavior, and lifetime mechanical performance of critical components.
• Develop mechanical and physical concepts, and support the development of processes to create or identify structures, systems, and components for use in high-reliability products or facilities.
• Identify, collect, and document applicable requirements, interfaces, design bases, and criteria by coordinating with key stakeholders and systems engineers, and by identifying applicable industry codes and standards.
• Plan and perform analyses required to assess mechanical systems and ensure they can perform their intended functions and meet technical specifications and design requirements.
• Perform computations using hand calculations and analytical tools for structural, thermal, hydraulic, and other scoping calculations as required, ensuring mechanical systems can meet technical requirements.
• Support assessment of mechanical systems and structures for manufacturability, as well as assembly and integration considerations, in collaboration with project leads.
• Write and develop design documentation, including design basis documents, technical reports, calculations, and drawings, in accordance with applicable procedures.
• Develop verification and validation (V&V) plans for analytical tools and support the qualification of the analysis toolset.
• Perform work in accordance with established quality procedures for design and configuration management to ensure project quality requirements are consistently met.
• Provide independent reviews and acceptance reviews of engineering deliverables and data to support robust technical decision-making.
• Apply structural analysis and dynamics analysis methods to mechanical systems such as high-pressure vessels, fluid systems, reactors, boilers, gas turbines, combustion systems, rocket propulsion systems, heat exchangers, steam-driven systems, thermal systems, and advanced mechanism systems.
• Use standard industry FEA and mechanical analysis software programs to perform stress and dynamics analysis, and integrate results into product development and production decisions.
• Work through the product development lifecycle with actual hardware and mechanical systems, supporting development through to production and fabrication at advanced technology and manufacturing readiness levels.
• Collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams with diverse backgrounds to perform stress, strain, and deformation analyses that directly inform the design and production of physical systems and hardware.
• Contribute to design-analyze-build and manufacturing project execution, demonstrating leadership in coordinating analysis activities with design and fabrication efforts.

Essential Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline from an accredited university or college.
• 5–10 years of engineering experience; graduate degrees may count as two or more years of experience.
• Hands-on experience with actual hardware and mechanical systems across the full product development lifecycle through to production and fabrication, at Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 5 or beyond and Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL) 5 or 6 or higher.
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as aerospace, commercial aviation, medical devices, automotive, propulsion or rocketry, defense electronics, or other related regulated sectors.
• Strong background in mechanical systems structural anal