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S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground. OUR VALUES Be the offset.

We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity. What would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

True Anomaly is seeking a highly accomplished Loads Development Lead to serve as the technical authority for structural, mechanical, thermal, and coupled loads across a next-generation Space Based Interceptors defense program. This is a generational opportunity to architect the structural design basis for one of the most demanding mission sets in aerospace engineering and Space Based Interceptors defense. In this role, you will have end-to-end ownership of loads development across the full system lifecycle, from ground handling and launch through on-orbit operations, intercept maneuvers, and end-of-life scenarios.

Requirements

The Loads Development Lead is the single point of accountability for loads methodology, assumptions, traceability, and technical rigor. You will define governing load cases, ensure consistency across subsystem analyses, adjudicate discrepancies, and act as steward of one of the program’s most critical technical artifacts: the Loads Data Book. Your work ensures that load environments are physically realistic, analytically defensible, and properly integrated into design, analysis, verification, certification, and safety margins across the program.

This role requires close collaboration with structures, dynamics, thermal, mechanisms, avionics, systems engineering, GNC, propulsion, trajectory, environments, and test teams to ensure system integrity and performance. You will lead design trade studies driven by load sensitivities, support risk reduction and anomaly resolution efforts, and represent the program in internal and external technical reviews. As a senior technical leader, you will mentor analysts, shape best practices, and protect the intellectual rigor of the program’s structural design basis.

You will play a central role in ensuring the success, credibility, and long-term robustness of True Anomaly’s Space Based Interceptors defense architecture.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Qualifications

Experience: 8+ years full lifecycle experience in structural loads development for aerospace systems (spacecraft, Space Based Interceptors, interceptors, or launch vehicles) Expertise in CLA, load derivation, and structural verification. Demonstrated experience generating and managing loads across multiple mission phases and operational environments. Strong background in structural dynamics, coupled loads analysis, and systems-level load integration.

Experience authoring, owning, and maintaining formal loads documentation such as Loads Data Books or equivalent governing artifacts. , Femap , NASTRAN, MATLAB, Python, or equivalent). Proven leadership in design, analysis, and verification on a major aerospace program.

Ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and coordinate across hardware and software boundaries. Bachelors Degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or related field. D.

Preferred Qualifications

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Loads Development Lead, Space Based Interceptors