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  Senior Structure Analysis Engineer Location: Playa Vista, California (in-person, five days per week)   Outpost is building the return lane from space. We’re developing reusable vehicles that bring payloads home from orbit safely and precisely, enabling faster in-space manufacturing, global delivery, and entirely new capabilities in the space economy.   We’re a mission-driven team that cares deeply about the work and the people doing it. We are in an exciting stage of growth, which means ownership from day one. Our engineers design hardware, test it, iterate on it, and watch it move toward flight. We are based in the aerospace hub of Playa Vista, where you can spend your days solving complex problems and your evenings on the beach or in the mountains. The work is meaningful, the team is collaborative, and the mission matters. If you want to see the systems you design make it to orbit—and back—come build with us.   The Role   We’re looking for a Senior Structure Analysis Engineer  to own structural and thermal analysis across flight hardware, from early design through flight readiness and production. This role sits at the center of engineering decision-making. You will be responsible for ensuring hardware is analytically sound, flight-worthy, and properly dispositioned - working closely with mechanical design, avionics, test, manufacturing, and systems teams.   Responsibilities Own structural analysis of primary and secondary spacecraft structures, including but not limited to: Modal analysis Random vibration Static and quasi-static loading Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) and thermo-elastic loading Perform analysis on a wide range of hardware, including: Flight structures and mechanisms Avionics enclosures PCB and electronics assemblies Lead or support thermal analysis to evaluate operating margins, gradients, and coupled structural-thermal effects Serve as a technical authority for hardware disposition: Assess flight and test hardware prior to production Support nonconformance (NCR) resolution and root-cause analysis Provide clear, defensible recommendations for accept-as-is, repair, or rework decisions Partner closely with design and test teams to translate requirements into analysis models and to correlate analysis with test result                    Contribute to analysis methodologies, best practices, and documentation that scale with the program.   Qualifications   Bachelor's degree in Structural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. 8+ years of experience, with at least 5 years analyzing complex aerospace components. Proven experience performing linear and nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) of spacecraft, launch vehicle, or aerospace structures using tools such as Nastran, Patran, ANSYS, or equivalent. Strong experience applying analysis to real flight hardware - not just academic models. Experience supporting hardware through test, flight qualification, and production. Experience analyzing metallic and composite primary and secondary structures under static, dynamic, thermal, vibration, and fatigue loading conditions. Strong understanding of spacecraft and launch vehicle load paths, structural sizing, margins of safety, and failure modes. Experience supporting structural verification through analysis, testing, and correlation, including qualification and acceptance test campaigns. Experience with launch environments, including random vibration, sine vibration, shock, acoustic loads, and thermal environments. Preferred Experience       Active U.S. Government Security Clearance (not required, but beneficial). Experience supporting NASA, DoD, or commercial spacef