About the job
Senior Structural Analysis Engineer
About Us:
At BlackSky, we are pioneers in real-time intelligence, operating the world’s most sophisticated space-based intelligence platform. We empower our clients with satellite imagery, automated analytics, and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events globally. Our commitment to delivering actionable insights makes us a trusted partner for military, intelligence organizations, and commercial enterprises alike. BlackSky's data equips governments and businesses with the foresight to understand and anticipate changes, ensuring they maintain a strategic advantage. Our diverse and innovative team utilizes cutting-edge technology to make a global impact while prioritizing a people-first, customer-focused, and enjoyable work environment.
In the role of Senior Structural Analysis Engineer at BlackSky, you will play a crucial part in the development, verification, and testing of our satellite systems and associated hardware. You will construct finite element models for space hardware, encompassing electromechanical devices, deployed and stowed appendages, fully integrated satellites, and ground support equipment. Your analytical expertise will be instrumental in assessing environments and structural performance to determine the flightworthiness of satellite designs down to component assembly levels. Engaging actively in testing processes, you will generate test procedures, conduct pre-test analyses, determine instrumentation placements, execute testing, and correlate post-test models. Collaboration with satellite operators and launch service providers will ensure design compatibility with launch loads while producing and submitting verification artifacts. This dynamic role requires you to work within a highly skilled technical team dedicated to producing state-of-the-art satellites.
This position reports to the Director of Mechanical Engineering and offers a hybrid work model based in our Tukwila, WA office.
