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Composites Stress Engineer

Firehole Composites provides innovative software and analysis services for companies looking to excel with composite materials. Firehole offers a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment working for customers on some of the world’s most advanced structures – such as spacecraft, airplanes, Formula One cars and racing yachts. As a small business, Firehole prizes its brilliant, driven team of engineers and enjoys a flat organizational structure that puts every team member in the thick of the action. This is a unique opportunity to work with industry leaders and see projects evolve from conception through customer deployment at a company where you will be surrounded by co-workers that consistently exceed your expectations.

Firehole Composites is seeking an outstanding Composite Stress Engineer who has a desire to work in our highly collaborative and fast-paced environment. As part of our highly skilled team, you will work with other outstanding engineers in designing and analyzing structural components made from composite materials and advancing the state-of-the-art in computer simulation. Our engineers work directly with our clients in helping them to be successful with their composite design.

Responsibilities

• Interpreting design specifications from customers and creating finite element models of complex parts made of composite materials.
• Using Firehole's industry-leading Helius:MCT™ product to perform progressive failure analysis of composite parts.
• Contributing as part of a team to develop new methods of simulation and modeling for composite material and structures.
• Analyzing results from simulation, generating reports and presentations, and presenting results to both external and internal groups.
• Training Firehole customers on best practices for composite analysis.
• Interacting with Firehole Business Development team to perform demonstrations and proposals for potential customers.
• Perform testing and develop documentation for Firehole's software products from an end-user perspective.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have composites analysis experience with commercial FEA codes (ANSYS, Nastran or Abaqus).
• An understanding of modern structural analysis methods (FEA and hand-calculations) is required.
• A thorough background in composite materials is required.
• Experience in an aerospace environment is desired.
• Experience with Python or a similar code is desired.
• Must be capable of working with others in a technical environment, have a strong work ethic and a willingness to solve difficult engineering challenges.
• Better-than-average Foosball skills are desired, but not required.
• Applicants are required to be U. S. Citizens or permanent residents.

Education / Experience

Zero-3 years of relevant experience get you in the door. Recent Graduates (especially MS graduates) with relevant coursework/research and a track record of success are encouraged to apply.

"We've been looking for an engineering firm that provides state-of-the-art analytical skills, timely/reliable delivery, personal interaction and flexibility. In Firehole I believe that we've found them. They shrink the gap between technical analysis and physical design; this makes it possible for us to interface directly with their staff and make real-time corrections and modifications to the design. This saves our team hours, money and frustration."
- Mark Bishop Senior Design Engineer, Farr Yacht Design

About Firehole Composites

Firehole is located in Laramie, Wyoming -- 130 miles north of Denver. The area offers an outstanding quality of life with a low cost of living, over 300 days of sunshine per year, clean air, laid-back lifestyle, Division 1 college athletics, warm and friendly people and hundreds of recreational opportunities including biking, hiking, climbing, fishing, skiing and more. Wyoming also has no personal or state income tax. Firehole offers competitive pay packages plus comprehensive benefits such as a flexible work schedules, medical and dental insurance, and an optional SIMPLE IRA retirement matching program.

Firehole Composites is an equal opportunity employer. EOE/M/F/D/V
Apply by email: jobs@firehole.com