Description:
Comany – Structures Stress Team, located in Long Beach, California, is seeking an experienced Structural Analysis Engineer with adept knowledge of stress analysis methods, engineering principles, certification, and collaboration skills. This requisition is hiring for primary and secondary structures stress for airplane production & airplane post-production modifications.
At the Long Design Center, we keep the world connected. We make the world a smaller place by bringing families, friends, and loved ones together. Whether that is helping people fly with our work on Company’s incredible fleet of aircraft or keeping them connected virtually with our work on satellites. Our team gives the opportunity to experience many facets of the Company in one place! Our teams are currently hiring for a broad range of experience levels including Mid and Lead-Level Engineers.
Position Responsibilities: • Performing detailed structural analysis to determine structural integrity (margins of safety), using classical techniques and Company tools. This analysis can support production, responses to customer inquiries, service bulletin development, failure investigation, regulatory agency coordination and show compliance to regulatory requirements. • Providing guidance on structural design and configuration development. • Create trade studies to optimize the structure and meet program requirements. • Work with the team to integrate component-level structural models and perform integrated analysis, using finite element methods, to develop internal loads and stresses in order to verify structural integrity with minimal instruction. • Document structural analyses and data required to show compliance with Company, customer, and regulatory requirements. • Participate in the resolution of technical, operational, and quality issues that cannot be resolved by the customer (internal and external). Required Skills: • Bachelor of science from an accredited course of study, in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering or chemistry or other technical degree. • 5+ years of experience with Stress Analysis/Structural Analysis. • 3+ years of experience with classical hand analysis and FEA software experience. • Experience with Company tools, processes, and procedures. • Experience with Fatigue and Damage Tolerance Analysis. • Willing & able to travel up to 10% of the time domestically and internationally.
Preferred Skills: • 5+ years related work experience or an equivalent combination of education. • 2+ years leading and mentoring structural analyst team members while engaging with cross-functional stakeholders. • 2+ years engaged in 787 primary structural analysis
Education/experience typically acquired through advanced technical education from an accredited course of study in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics or chemistry (e.g. Bachelor) and typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of technical education and experience (e.g. PhD+4 years' related work experience, Master+7 years' related work experience). In the USA, ABET accreditation is the preferred, although not required, accreditation standard.
Job Number:
377351
Job Location:
Long Beach, CA
Rate:
TBD
Duration:
12 - months
Start Date:
ASAP
Input Date:
02/13/2026
Last Updated:
02/20/2026
Firm Name:
CTS INTERNATIONAL
Address:
160 NW GILMAN BLVD STE 250
City, State:
ISSAQUAH, WA 98027
Phone:
425/451-0051
Fax Phone:
425/635-7630
Email:cjhunter@ctsinternational.com Website:www.ctsinternational.com