Structural Design & Analysis Engineer
On-siteBengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job Summary
Structural Design & Analysis Engineer at LAT Aerospace who will design, analyze, build, and validate aircraft structures from concept to flight-ready hardware. You will design primary and secondary structures (wings, fuselage, empennage, landing gear attachments, propulsion integration), perform sizing via analytical methods and FEA, evaluate static strength, stiffness, buckling, fatigue, and structural stability, and optimize for weight, manufacturability, cost, and efficiency. Responsibilities include developing CAD models and drawings, collaborating with aerodynamics, propulsion, flight controls, and manufacturing teams, designing composite and metallic structures, creating test articles and validation plans for coupon and full-scale testing, correlating FEA with experimental data, supporting assembly and flight-test campaigns, and implementing design improvements based on test/flight data.
Required Qualifications
- Strong fundamentals in solid mechanics, aircraft structures, and finite element analysis
- Experience with industry-standard CAD software
- Experience with structural analysis tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, Nastran, OptiStruct, or equivalent
- Hands-on experience designing lightweight aerospace structures using metallic and/or composite materials
- Experience performing structural sizing, stress analysis, buckling analysis, and fatigue assessments
- Familiarity with aerospace manufacturing processes including composite layups, machining, sheet metal fabrication, and bonded or bolted assemblies
- Strong understanding of load paths, structural efficiency, and design for manufacturability
- Comfortable working with prototype hardware, structural testing, and rapid design iterations
- Strong troubleshooting and engineering problem-solving skills
- Programming experience in Python or MATLAB for analysis automation is highly preferred
- Experience with aircraft, UAV, automotive motorsport, or other lightweight structures is highly preferred
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