Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer — Air Vehicles & Precision Strike

Structures Design | Stress Analysis | Flight-Test & Qualification Support

Location Orange County, California Employment Type Full-time Department Engineering — Mechanical / Air Vehicle Reports To
Eligibility 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.

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.

• 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
• Support the selection and qualification of structural materials, including aerospace alloys, composites, adhesives, and high-temperature materials where applicable
• Define structural requirements, acceptance criteria, and analysis methods appropriate to program maturity

• Define structural verification approaches and develop test plans for static, vibration, shock, thermal, fatigue, and environmental qualification
• Support test fixture design, instrumentation selection, test execution, and data acquisition
• Correlate structural models and predictions against development, ground, and flight-test data
• Investigate structural anomalies, analyze failures, and drive root-cause and corrective-action efforts
• Provide structural support during prototype assembly, integration, environmental test, and flight-test campaigns
• Document analysis assumptions, model configurations, test correlation, and design rationale in clear technical reports and review packages

• Work closely with Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Flight Controls, Electrical, Manufacturing, Test, and Program teams
• Translate structural analysis into direct, actionable design guidance for engineers and technicians
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