Stress Engineer

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Your Mission:

Support structural sizing and substantiation activities with disciplined analysis, documentation, and traceability.

Supporting the creation, validation, and interpretation of finite element (FE) models for components and assemblies.

Metallic and Composite/Hybrid Structure Engineering – Analysis and Validation of structural components and assemblies that are optimized in terms of weight, cost, performance.

Improve design decisions by making assumptions, margins, and limitations explicit.

Collaborate with the testing team to define tests, instrumentation and test correlations.

Participation in the development of the technological areas of structural discipline.

Support the development of analytical tools.

Day-to-Day:

Support structural analysis tasks (hand calculations and FEA) for assigned components under guidance.

Help build and maintain analysis models and inputs (geometry, materials, loads, boundary conditions).

Support sizing iterations with design engineers; document assumptions and margins.

Prepare verification reports and support design reviews.

Working ties to other Engineering departments (e.g., design, system engineering, aerodynamic…).

Support basic strength checks and allowable usage with supervision.

Support test correlation activities: compare test data vs predictions and update models.

Participate in configuration control: ensure analyses match released design baselines.

Maintain an organized evidence trail (inputs, versions, results, review comments, actions).

You will have the opportunity to see the result of your work in the final product and to be part of continuous improvement and technology projects.

Thrives in an autonomous work environment and takes ownership of tasks.

Traits for Success:

MSc in Aerospace/Mechanical or similar.

2-4 years’ experience (or internships) in structures or mechanical analysis.

Understanding of aircraft structures, composites, metallic materials, and aerospace standards

Experience with structural FEM (e.g. Hypermesh, Nastran,…) and hand calculations, either on a professional level or in student groups or projects.

Ability to document assumptions, margins, and limitations clearly.

Care for traceability: you can show which design baseline and load case your result applies to.

Comfortable receiving detailed technical review and iterating quickly.

Practical attitude towards supporting tests and learning from real hardware.

Nice-to-have:

Basic fatigue/damage tolerance awareness (concept level).

Experience working with loads inputs and design allowables.

Experience in a configuration-controlled environment.

Experience with programming in Python, Visual basic or similar

Familiarity with structural design and CATIA.