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Overview

Gravitics is building the infrastructure for a thriving space economy by designing and manufacturing large-scale orbital structures. The Structures Analyst role involves working on the full product lifecycle of various assemblies, focusing on structural analysis and optimization.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with design engineers to validate and optimize structural designs for strength, stiffness, weight, cost, and manufacturability.
  • Perform stress, deflection, stability, and margin of safety analyses using FEM and hand calculations.
  • Participate in subsystem test planning, execution, data reduction, and analysis.
  • Conduct analysis checks for designers and junior analysts in stress/stability/fracture analysis.
  • Prepare technical content and present to internal and external customers.
  • Assess damage or out of tolerance conditions and provide guidance on repair or use.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of industry experience in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
  • Bachelor’s degree in an applicable field.
  • Experience with analyzing and dispositioning non-conformances.
  • Experience with hand calculations including free-body diagrams.
  • Knowledge of bolted joint calculations.
  • Experience with classical and aerospace analysis methods.
  • Understanding of FEM modeling techniques.
  • Experience with mesh generation and understanding of element types.
  • Analysis of stability critical structures.
  • Experience with development and/or qualification testing.
  • Knowledge of vehicle load path and stress analysis of structures.
  • Expertise with at least two pre-post/solver codes.

Benefits

  • 401k
  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, candidates must be U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents.

Benefits

401k
Health Insurance
PTO
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How this job compares in Houston, TX

Pay in context

At roughly $60/hr, this posting sits about 100% above the $30/hr median for welding jobs in Houston, TX — toward the top of a $22–$37/hr middle band drawn from 99 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 95% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

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Gravitics Inc currently has 1 other opening live in Texas, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

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