ID | 2024-5382 | Category | Engineering | Position Type | Regular Full-Time | Telecommute Options | Flexible for occasional telework - must be local to work location |
Arcfield is a leading provider of full lifecycle, mission-focused systems engineering and integration capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. The company has more than 60 years of proven experience providing advanced engineering and analysis, IT and C5ISR capabilities to support our nation's most critical national security missions. Headquartered in Chantilly, VA and with 16 offices around the world, Arcfield employs approximately 1,200 engineers, analysts, IT specialists, and other professionals who put our customers' missions first, helping them solve their most complex challenges through innovations in modeling, simulation and analysis, digital transformation and C5ISR. Visit arcfield.com for more details.
This Opportunity
We are seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join our Ballistic Missile Radiation Hardening Team in Colorado Springs, CO.
This position will provide you the opportunity to join a group of about 10 scientists and engineers supporting the US Navy's submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM) radiation hardening effort. You will work with the team to assess the effects of nuclear weapon environments on aerospace materials and missile components. You will be learning current techniques and using modern software tools in performing your duties as a member of our multidisciplinary team.
Your Impact
The successful candidate will perform a wide range of tasks spanning computer-aided design of mechanical systems, radiation induced thermomechanical shock and system structural response, gas gun impact dynamics and stress wave phenomenology research leading to fracture and deformation of materials. You will correlate computational models with experimental data collected at our Patriot Gas Gun facility and other nuclear weapons effects testing facilities. You will develop and present mechanical hardening and vulnerability system assessments. The position will require the use of scientific and engineering software, in particular Abaqus, FEA, and PUFF Lagrangian hydrodynamics, as well as data processing software (e.g., Python, MATLAB). You will have the opportunity to work with technical staff from organizations across the U.S. nuclear weapons complex.
In this position you will be responsible for the following:
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EEO
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