Description
Louvain-la-Neuve
Full Time
Aerospacelab is looking for an engineer who will model satellite structures, mechanisms, and payloads.
While being part of a team of experienced mechanical engineers, you will closely work with the multidisciplinary teams developing our satellite payloads, composed of electromechanical, materials, mechanical, optics, and RF engineers.
Your first mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to model how manufacturing uncertainty impact the shape of a deployable space structure for which shape accuracy is critical.
Duties
- Perform analyses to guide payload and deployable space structures development
- Compare your predictions with test results
- Contribute to our internal tools and our codebase that allows our company to iterate more quickly on new concepts
- Design experiments with project teams to de-risk technical choices
Must have
- Experience with numerical and mechanical analysis
- Experience solving problems with Python or another scripting language
- Good problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities
- Will to improve in multiple mechanical domains
- Working level English
Nice to have
- Experience with Nastran
- Experience with space requirements
- Experience with complex mechanical structures, such as deployables or tensegrity structures
- Experience with modelling of composite materials
What we offer
- A role that impacts the growth of the company, and contributes to Aerospacelab’s products
- A world-class space start-up environment
- A pragmatic flat hierarchy
- The flexibility and autonomy of your work environment
- The chance to being part of a great team of nice and smart people with whom you’ll learn every day
Why work at Aerospacelab?
You will work on satellites that will fly before your retirement.
Be part of the « new space » industry and its challenges.
Surround yourself with smart and innovative people.
No dumb managers, no stupid tools to use.
Take a lot of responsibility if you can handle.
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