Aaron Siddens

Aaron Siddens is a Senior Staff Airframe Engineer at Archer Aviation, specializing in linear and nonlinear structural analysis for the Midnight airframe. They have a solid background in structural analysis, impact dynamics, and composite structures, and have utilized tools like LS-DYNA and Nastran throughout their career. Previously, Aaron worked as a structures engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, leading impact structures analysis for the Mars Sample Return mission. They also held positions at Pratt & Whitney and Virginia Tech, where they contributed to research and development in aerospace engineering. Aaron earned a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Missouri-Columbia.