Search 21,061 named mechanical, aerospace, structural, thermal and materials engineers who author NASA technical reports. Use for turbomachinery, propulsion, composites, structures, tribology, thermal systems, additive manufacturing and flight hardware roles.
IMPORTANT: this is a SEPARATE population from find_candidates, not a filter on it. These are engineers whose work appears in technical reports rather than code — the disciplines that leave almost no trace on GitHub (the whole corpus holds 5 projects tagged SolidWorks). Call find_candidates for software; call this for people who design hardware.
Set industry_only=true to exclude NASA civil servants and return only engineers whose CURRENT employer is a contractor or university (Jacobs, Boeing, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Analytical Mechanics Associates...). Prefer since_year >= 2020: report volume is front-loaded, so a person last published in 2016 may be a decade stale.
Each result carries actual report titles, subject categories, employer and years active. No contact details exist in this source.