Structural Engineer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Orange County
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience with missile, munition, high-speed air vehicle, UAS, rocket, launch vehicle, or other high-dynamic aerospace hardware.
- Experience with high-g, shock, vibration, thermal, or gun-launch environments.
- Experience with composite structural design, laminate analysis, damage tolerance, delamination, and manufacturing.
- Experience with nonlinear FEA, contact analysis, explicit dynamics, fracture mechanics, or fatigue-life analysis.
- Experience with coupled thermal-structural analysis and high-temperature materials.
- Proficiency with Python, MATLAB, or equivalent tools for analysis automation, data reduction, and model development.
- Experience developing structural qualification programs and supporting flight-test campaigns.
- Familiarity with GD&T, tolerance analysis, configuration management, and production-release processes.
- Active U.S. government security clearance.
Full description
Structural Engineer — Air Vehicles & Precision Strike
Structures Design | Stress Analysis | Flight-Test & Qualification SupportLocation
Orange County, California
Employment Type
Full-time
Department
Engineering — Mechanical / Air Vehicle
Reports ToEligibility
U.S. citizenship required; must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance
About Tiberius Aerospace
Tiberius Aerospace is a cutting-edge aerospace and defense company delivering advanced, mission-critical technologies for government and private-sector customers. The company develops high-performance aerospace systems, secure engineering solutions, and complex hardware for demanding operational environments.
Tiberius 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.
The Role
Tiberius 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.
You 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.
This 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.
What You’ll Do
Structural Design & Analysis
- Design and analyze primary and secondary structures, structural interfaces, and mechanical assemblies for air vehicles and munition systems.
- Develop structural concepts and detailed designs for metallic, composite, and hybrid hardware.
- Perform structural analysis using classical hand calculations, spreadsheets, scripts, and finite element analysis.
- Evaluate static strength, stiffness, buckling, modal response, shock, vibration, fatigue, and thermal-stress performance.
- Develop and maintain component-, subsystem-, and vehicle-level finite element models.
- Perform load-path assessments, joint and fastener analysis, margin-of-safety calculations, and material trade studies.
- Conduct design trades that balance mass, strength, manufacturability, cost, schedule, and mission performance.