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Load and Dynamics Engineer

We're working with a fast-moving space company that needs a Loads & Dynamics Engineer to own the dynamic environments side of its hardware programmes. This isn't documentation-heavy compliance work — it's hands-on analysis where you'll derive environments, get test data in the room, and correlate it back against your models.

The core need is loads & dynamics, but there's a meaningful stress/FEA component alongside it. The ideal hire is a dynamics-focused engineer who can also carry a heavier Nastran workload and hold their own on stress — someone comfortable across both rather than a pure specialist in one. Depending on background, this could also be scoped as two separate engagements (loads & dynamics and stress), so strong candidates weighted toward either side are worth a conversation.

You won't need to be a career-long specialist, but you do need real depth in the discipline and the confidence to work directly with customers.

What you'll be doing

Loads & dynamics (primary)

  • Deriving dynamic environments and structural loads for spacecraft and launch hardware
  • Vibro-acoustics, random vibration, shock response, and structural dynamics analysis
  • Building system-level FE models and generating super-elements for customer delivery
  • Planning and correlating test campaigns — collecting data and reconciling it with your models
  • Iterating directly with customers on coupled loads and integrated analysis

Stress / FEA (alongside)

  • Detailed stress and structural analysis, hand calculations, and margins of safety
  • Heavier Nastran/FEA workload supporting the analysis effort
  • Desktop analysis work, largely remote

What we're looking for

  • Strong loads & dynamics background gained in space or defence
  • Proven experience deriving environments, running test campaigns, and correlating models to data
  • Solid stress/FEA capability — hands-on with Nastran (Femap, Patran, or equivalent an advantage)
  • Comfortable owning customer-facing loads discussions

Background fit:

  • Ideal: engineers out of new space — the pace, ownership, and end-to-end analysis culture of companies like Blue Origin, SpaceX, Rocket Lab, or Relativity map directly onto how this team works.
  • Also welcome: defence backgrounds, particularly propulsion (liquid or solid), missile, or high-speed aircraft systems.

Logistics

  • Contract engagement
  • Fully remote — largely desktop analysis, with no foreseeable on-site requirement (any minimal site coordination would be years out and hardware-dependent)