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The company develops high-performance aerospace systems, secure engineering solutions, and complex hardware for demanding operational environments.\nTiberius is scaling quickly and is looking for engineers who operate with ownership, urgency, sound technical judgment, and the discipline required to deliver hardware that performs when it matters.\nThe Role\nTiberius Aerospace is seeking a hands-on Structural Engineer to design, analyze, build, test, and qualify structural hardware for advanced air vehicle and precision-strike programs.\nYou will own structural work from early concepts through detailed design, prototype builds, test, qualification, and production transition. The role spans primary and secondary metallic and composite structures, structural interfaces, flight hardware, and mechanisms operating in high-load, high-vibration, and high-dynamic environments.\nThis is an opportunity to work directly on real hardware-not analysis in isolation-and to use structural results to drive practical design decisions across airframe, propulsion integration, payload, and flight-test systems.\nWhat You’ll Do\nStructural Design & Analysis\nDesign and analyze primary and secondary structures, structural interfaces, and mechanical assemblies for air vehicles and munition systems.\nDevelop structural concepts and detailed designs for metallic, composite, and hybrid hardware.\nPerform structural analysis using classical hand calculations, spreadsheets, scripts, and finite element analysis.\nEvaluate static strength, stiffness, buckling, modal response, shock, vibration, fatigue, and thermal-stress performance.\nDevelop and maintain component-, subsystem-, and vehicle-level finite element models.\nPerform load-path assessments, joint and fastener analysis, margin-of-safety calculations, and material trade studies.\nConduct design trades that balance mass, strength, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and mission performance.\nSupport the selection and qualification of structural materials, including aerospace alloys, composites, adhesives, and high-temperature materials where applicable.\nDefine structural requirements, acceptance criteria, and analysis methods appropriate to program maturity.\nTesting, Validation & Qualification\nDefine structural verification approaches and develop test plans for static, vibration, shock, thermal, fatigue, and environmental qualification.\nSupport test fixture design, instrumentation selection, test execution, and data acquisition.\nCorrelate structural models and predictions against development, ground, and flight-test data.\nInvestigate structural anomalies, analyze failures, and drive root-cause and corrective-action efforts.\nProvide structural support during prototype assembly, integration, environmental test, and flight-test campaigns.\nDocument analysis assumptions, model configurations, test correlation, and design rationale in clear technical reports and review packages.\nCross-Functional Hardware Ownership\nWork closely with Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Flight Controls, Electrical, Manufacturing, Test, and Program teams.\nTranslate structural analysis into direct, actionable design guidance for engineers and technicians.\nSupport manufacturing and supplier partners with design-for-manufacturing and design-for-assembly decisions.\nReview drawings, CAD models, manufacturing plans, and hardware deviations for structural impact.\nParticipate in design reviews and communicate structural risks, margins, tradeoffs, and recommended paths forward.\nSupport the transition of successful prototype hardware into repeatable production configurations.\nWhat You’ll Bring\nB.S. or higher in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, or a related discipline.\n3+ years of relevant structural design or analysis experience supporting aerospace, defense, high-performance vehicles, propulsion, or comparable mission-critical hardware.\nStrong foundation in statics, dynamics, mechanics of materials, structural load paths, stress analysis, and material behavior.\nExperience with finite element analysis tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, NASTRAN, FEMAP, Patran, or equivalent.\nExperience developing and interpreting analysis for static, dynamic, vibration, shock, buckling, fatigue, and thermal loading conditions.\nFamiliarity with CAD tools such as NX, Creo, CATIA, SolidWorks, or equivalent.\nWorking knowledge of metallic and composite structures, fasteners, joints, bonding, and common aerospace manufacturing methods.\nExperience supporting structural test planning, execution, data reduction, and analysis-to-test correlation.\nAbility to use first-principles engineering and hand calculations to independently check simulation results.\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex structural results to multidisciplinary teams.\nU.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience with missile, munition, high-speed air vehicle, UAS, rocket, launch vehicle, or other high-dynamic aerospace hardware.\nExperience with high-g, shock, vibration, thermal, or gun-launch environments.\nExperience with composite structural design, laminate analysis, damage tolerance, delamination, and manufacturing.\nExperience with nonlinear FEA, contact analysis, explicit dynamics, fracture mechanics, or fatigue-life analysis.\nExperience with coupled thermal-structural analysis and high-temperature materials.\nProficiency with Python, MATLAB, or equivalent tools for analysis automation, data reduction, and model development.\nExperience developing structural qualification programs and supporting flight-test campaigns.\nFamiliarity with GD&T, tolerance analysis, configuration management, and production-release processes.\nActive U.S. government security clearance.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nYou are comfortable moving between analysis and hardware. You can build a credible model, identify when its assumptions do not match reality, and use first-principles judgment to determine what matters.\nYou understand that structural analysis is not a report-writing exercise-it is a tool for helping the team make better, faster design decisions. You communicate risk early, support the hardware through test, and take ownership of getting a structurally sound design into production.\nGrowth Opportunity\nAs Tiberius Aerospace scales through development and into full-rate production, this role offers the opportunity to grow from individual structural analysis ownership into technical leadership across vehicle structures, qualification, and advanced air vehicle development.\nCompensation & Benefits\nTiberius Aerospace offers competitive compensation commensurate with experience, equity participation, comprehensive health benefits, and a 401(k). Specific compensation will be discussed during the interview process.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nTiberius Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. 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