Senior Analysis Engineer - R&T Propulsion

Senior Analysis Engineer – R&T Propulsion

The Role:

We are looking for an outstanding analysis engineer with a strong background in topology optimization, stress, fatigue, structural dynamics and crash and impact to support the Research & Technology Team pushing the boundaries with agile and fast iterating concept design and pre-development activities for the next generation Propulsion System.

In this position, you will have the exciting opportunity to be part of the Research and Technology Team working hands on to develop solutions that are ready for Lilium’s future aerospace applications. You will work closely together with two of our Co-Founders jointly spearheading Lilium’s future technology development.

Lilium welcomes people from all over the world. We are a multinational company and happy to support our new top talents with relocation. We have helped our new hires to meet their Visa criteria and successfully settle in Munich.

Your Day to Day:

Being part of the R&T Team, you will be leading:

• Agile and fast iterating concept evaluation and design improvements based on topology optimization and structural analysis.
• Optimization, pre-sizing, stress, and crash & impact analysis of structural components (composite and metal) and their interfaces related to the rotating, non-rotating components, and propulsion structures.
• Create, manage, adjust, and validate detailed FE models of sub-components and complete propulsion system structures and their installations, with responsibility for the full workflow of numerical modelling, solving and post-processing.
• Define, initiate and drive required test activities to derive data for model validation and performance demonstration.
• Model correlation with static and dynamic test data to drive analysis-based concept decisions and design optimizations.
• Actively define and develop modelling methods, tools and optimization techniques to support an efficient product pre-/development.
• Hold responsibility for all structural analysis methods relevant to new technologies and their pre-development. Communicate the necessary updates with methods & tools team.
• Collaborate closely with Engineers from Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, Material and Process and System Testing.

Your profile:

• /M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field is required.
• 5+ years of experience in topology optimization and structural analysis with application to aircraft structures or automotive structures and in the best case to propulsion related structures.
• Strong experience with lightweight design principles of composite materials, metals, adhesives, non-structural materials, and their structural behavior.
• Excellent knowledge of topology optimization, stress, fatigue, structural dynamics, crash and impact analysis methods following established standards.
• Extensive working experience with commercial implicit tools (knowledge of OptiStruct, Nastran and their corresponding pre/post-processors is of preference) is a must, and with explicit FE codes (i.e. LS-DYNA, Radioss) is beneficial.
• Working experienced with CAD software (i.e NX, CATIA) is required.
• Experienced with the agile concept and fast iterative pre-design phase of the R&T process
• Pragmatic, creative and target-oriented way of working with a pro-active mindset.
• Fluent English language skills are essential, fluent German or any other language would be beneficial.