# Senior Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer

> Essnova Solutions, Inc. · Newport News, United States · — · Posted 2026-08-13

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

Location: Fort Eustis, VA  
Work Arrangement: Primarily onsite  
Clearance: Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding  
Travel: Up to 25%  
Employment: Full-time; contingent upon contract award

Essnova is seeking two Senior Aerospace/Mechanical Engineers to provide aircraft analysis, integration, airworthiness, and testing support for U.S. Army aviation research and development projects.

Key Responsibilities

-   Define technical performance measures for test and evaluation.
-   Perform post-test data collection and analysis.
-   Develop modeling and simulation environments, system architectures, and verification plans.
-   Generate designs, drawings, and substantiation documentation supporting aircraft integration.
-   Prepare airworthiness substantiation packages.
-   Develop test plans and reports for structural, material, environmental, electromagnetic, vibration, and system testing.
-   Produce stress and test reports addressing applicable specifications, FAA requirements, maneuver loads, crash loads, and fatigue loads.
-   Analyze vibration data and Resonance Assessment Profile testing.
-   Oversee less-senior engineering personnel and present technical findings.

## Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

-   Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering degree from an ABET-accredited program, including classical analysis, finite element analysis, fatigue analysis, and finite/infinite life assessment.
-   One of the following:

-   Bachelor’s degree and at least eight years of relevant aviation or R&D test, analysis, and reporting experience.
-   Master’s degree and at least six years of relevant experience.
-   Doctoral degree and at least three years of relevant experience.

-   Active Secret clearance; Interim Secret acceptable during onboarding.
-   Ability to work primarily onsite at Fort Eustis and travel up to 25%.

Preferred Qualifications

-   Army aviation airworthiness or AR 70-62 experience.
-   Aircraft structural analysis, FEA, fatigue, vibration, or rotorcraft experience.
-   Military aircraft integration and testing experience.

Proposal Requirement

Selected candidates must provide a qualification-traceable résumé and sign a Letter of Commitment confirming availability at the anticipated start of contract performance.

## Apply

[Apply at Essnova Solutions, Inc.](https://apply.workable.com/essnova-solutions-inc/j/A97654D185/apply)

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