Mechanical & Dynamics Engineer

Loft Orbital Solutions
Abu Dhabi
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled TradesExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Communication","Organizational skills","Problem-solving"]

Join Orbitworks as a Mechanical & Dynamics Engineer, owning spacecraft-level structural analysis and testing to ensure fastener and component stress margins meet launch environment requirements. You'll correlate finite element models with vibration tests, perform mechanical trade studies, and support vendor selection, layouts, and assembly-and-test activities for satellite hardware. You will also review supplier and customer payload analyses and may perform satellite thermal analysis.

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Loft Orbital Solutions
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Mechanical & Dynamics Engineer

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Job Summary

Join Orbitworks as a Mechanical & Dynamics Engineer, owning spacecraft-level structural analysis and testing to ensure fastener and component stress margins meet launch environment requirements. You'll correlate finite element models with vibration tests, perform mechanical trade studies, and support vendor selection, layouts, and assembly-and-test activities for satellite hardware. You will also review supplier and customer payload analyses and may perform satellite thermal analysis.
Location: Abu Dhabi
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Field Service, Maintenance & Skilled Trades

Key Responsibilities

  • •Serve as the in-house expert for Orbitworks structural analysis and testing, focusing on spacecraft-level analysis to ensure stress margins are compliant with launch environment requirements.
  • •Identify justified notch requests through force-limited methodology and correlate models to test results.
  • •Act as a general Mechanical Engineer at satellite level, conducting mechanical trade studies, vendor selection, mechanical layouts, interface design, drawings, and assembly & test.
  • •Review mechanical analysis/test results from suppliers and customer Payloads.
  • •Possibly perform satellite thermal design/analysis to confirm temperatures remain within acceptable limits.

Key Requirements

  • •Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field. Master’s degree preferred.
  • •A minimum of 5 years of experience performing structural analysis in the space industry.
  • •Understanding of force-limiting techniques.
  • •Pragmatic vibration testing experience (provision of pre-test inputs, test oversight, data reduction).
  • •FEA experience at Spacecraft level. Expert-level knowledge of at least one solver and pre-/post-processor package and cursory knowledge of others (Femap, Patran, Nastran, ANSYS, etc).
Experience:5+ yearsSpace
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:CommunicationOrganizational skillsProblem-solving
Tech Stack:FemapPatranNASTRANANSYSSolidWorks

Company Brief

Loft Orbital Solutions
Provides satellite rideshare and mission integration services, offering turnkey spacecraft platforms, payload hosting, and mission operations to accelerate deployment of space-based payloads for commercial and government customers.
Industry: Space Technology
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: Long Beach, United States
Founded: 2017
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