Junior R&D Engineer Computational Mechanics (m/f/x)

Working at NLR means working in a national and international high-tech environment. Collaboration and involvement are highly valued by us. By giving you freedom and personal responsibility, you are best able to achieve groundbreaking innovations. Do you want to develop yourself both professionally and personally? That is also possible at NLR as a learning organization, supplemented by a training budget, a mentor, internal coaches, and good contacts with vocational, applied sciences, and universities.

In addition to all this, we offer you:

• The opportunity to contribute to complex and socially relevant issues;

• Sufficient holiday and ATV days (45 in total for full-time employment) for a good work-life balance;

• An end-of-year bonus of 8%;

• An allowance for your healthcare costs;

• Extra paid parental leave;

• The possibility to develop yourself with education and courses that match your ambitions.

Are you a driven engineer (WO) who wants to contribute to innovative research in the world of aerospace? Do you want to use state-of-the-art design, simulation, and optimization methods for this? Then read on!

As an R&D Engineer, you will strengthen the Computational Mechanics team within the department. You will conduct research into new structural designs through analyses and optimizations of metal (3D-printed), composite, and hybrid structures. In doing so, you will make use of existing CAD and FEM software. You will develop design methodologies or advanced computational models for sustainable, lightweight, and economically viable concepts for application in aerospace. This can range from detailed calculations for components to global structural models of aircraft. Furthermore, you will contribute to the development of new process simulations for new innovative manufacturing concepts and support experimental testing with simulations. You will do this within projects that we carry out for customers in the Netherlands and abroad. For this, you will work closely with your colleagues and our manufacturing and testing departments. You will work in a team environment on projects, and the work offers plenty of opportunities for your further professional and personal development.