Structural Analyst

The role

The Structural Analyst will evaluate and improve the structural performance of sensing payloads and supporting hardware for airborne and space environments. This role works with mechanical, optomechanical, systems, and test engineers from early design through qualification.

What you will do

• Analyze and size structural hardware for advanced electro-optic and infrared sensors.
• Perform strength, fatigue, fracture, classic hand-calculation, and finite-element analyses.
• Develop finite-element models with appropriate requirements, processes, checks, and reports.
• Partner with designers and engineers to identify structural risks and recommend design changes.
• Develop test and instrumentation plans including strain-gauge approaches.
• Support data review and correlate analysis with observed performance.
• Document analysis assumptions, methods, finite-element model requirements, results, failure mechanisms, and design margins.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, civil, or a related engineering discipline.
• Strong foundation in structural mechanics and engineering analysis.
• Experience applying classic and finite-element analysis methods to real hardware.
• Experience using FEA codes and associated pre- and post-processors.
• Ability to communicate assumptions, uncertainty, technical results, and design implications clearly.
• Collaborative, multitasking approach to working across mechanical, systems, manufacturing, and test functions.

Nice to have

• Experience with aerospace materials and manufacturing, precision instrumentation, optical payloads, or other high-performance hardware.
• Experience correlating analytical models with environmental or qualification test data, including structures with metal and composite elements and bonded or bolted joints.
• Familiarity with lightweight structures, dynamic environments, tight alignment requirements, GD&T, and failure mechanisms in metals and composites including instability and fatigue.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Early-stage equity package
• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision coverage
• Opportunity to work on novel sensing, data, and AI systems

Before you apply

• Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, a lawful permanent resident (green card holder), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

About the company

Matter is building the future of vision AI by pairing a sensor that sees molecular chemistry, temperature, and 3D shape with a Large World Model. The team has delivered technologies to Mars for NASA/JPL and designed advanced sensors for U.S. Defense.