Principal Propulsion Engineer

We're seeking a Principal Propulsion Engineer to drive continual excellence into the rocket engine combustion chambers. You will dive in and get your hands dirty as a direct contributor, but you will also mentor and enable the next class of capable combustion devices engineers.

You will provide technical guidance for a diverse team through requirements and concepts, detailed design and manufacturing trade studies, mechanical and fluid/thermal analyses, engineering release, development & test support, and data reduction & performance modeling. You will team with Engine Managers and Advanced Manufacturing team to make things happen and keep newer and better hardware continually flowing into test stands and flight.

The candidate must be excited about mentoring and training. The ideal candidate would demonstrate prior experience in mechanical design, fluid/thermal analysis, manufacturing development, and test or flight support.

Essentials Duties

• Provide technical guidance across the full product lifecycle of rocket engine combustion chambers requirements and concepts to flight data review
• Team with fellow combustion devices engineers, M&P, engines groups, and production to make the best possible hardware. Coordinate closely across the engineering, production, and operations organizations
• Enable an ever-increasing launch cadence through design for rate
• Solve tough problems in design, analysis, manufacturing, and test and teach others how to do the same
• Provide organizational focus both to sustaining engineering and new development efforts of rocket engine combustion devices
• Ensure technical rigor always and enable the technical maturation of new propulsion designs across the launch vehicle-faster than ever
• Participate in trade studies, concepts evaluation, and system sizing for future stages and rockets
• Take ownership in product deliverables and meet commitments to maintain critical program schedules
• Establish analytical methods and tools with greater capability and automation.
  
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering required
• Demonstrated success in combustion devices design, analysis, and hardware development
• Capable of solving complex problems with little to no supervision on schedule as an individual or as leader of an integrated team
• Understanding of the design elements of combustion chambers, flow conditioning elements, manifolds, and mechanical seals
• Ability to review low speed and high speed combustion data to verify requirements, decipher trends, anticipate issues, and identify opportunities for improvement
• Rigorous attention to detail
• Familiarity with all or some of the following software packages: Teamcenter, NX, ANSYS, Matlab, SINDA/FLUINT
• Experience in low cost commercial space system ventures desired
• Experience and comfort in both development and production manufacturing environment desired
• Experience in rocket engine test and flight operations desired
• Passion for space exploration and a firm belief in the utility of affordable access to space
• Must be able to provide proof of US-approved Covid-19 full vaccination status, unless otherwise exempted by an approved reasonable medical or religious accommodation from the Client.
  
  

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