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Updated July 18, 2026

20 open positions

NASTRAN Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ nastran jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and 9-day fortnights—full pay and a better work-life balance. 2 new this week. Hiring companies include Panthalassa, CHAOS Industries, and United Launch Alliance.

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Jobs

2

New This Week

7+

Companies

Updated Daily

Specialist, Thermal Mechanical Engineer (Space Systems)

11h

L3Harris Technologies

OnsiteRochester or Wilmington

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Aircraft Structures Design Engineer

3d

General Atomics

HybridPoway, USA

58 · Good9 day fortnight

Structural Analysis Engineer

1mo

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

71 · Great9 day fortnight

Strength Analyst 2

1mo

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Strength Analyst Lead

1mo

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Strength Analyst 3

1mo

United Launch Alliance

HybridCentennial, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Senior Mechanical Engineer

10d

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer, Platform Integration

29d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer

29d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal/Senior Principal Mechanical Engineer

29d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Naval Architect

22d

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Naval Architect

22d

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Structural Analysis Engineer

2mo

OnsiteGreensboro, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal Mechanical Engineer, Platform Integration

29d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal Mechanical Engineer

29d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal Mechanical Engineer

29d

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteEl Segundo, USA

57 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Mechanical Engineer, Structures

1mo

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Mechanical Engineer, Structures

1mo

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Structural Engineer - Simulation

2mo

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Structural Engineer

2mo

OnsitePortland, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Nastran on this page include Panthalassa, CHAOS Industries, and United Launch Alliance. Nastran roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Nastran is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Nastran roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Nastran across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Nastran hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Nastran roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Nastran candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Nastran on current listings.