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Senior Turbomachinery Engineer
Company | Rocket Lab USA |
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Location | Long Beach, CA, USA |
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Salary | $116000 – $145000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | Bachelor’s |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a mechanical or aerospace engineering or discipline or equivalent
- 5+ years of turbomachinery design experience
- Experience with commercial design and analysis software
- Fundamental understanding of mechanical design and fluid dynamics principles
Responsibilities
- Responsible engineer of significant turbomachinery components/systems
- Drive design, manufacturing, testing, and flight to meet cost, life, reusability, and reliability milestones
- Work with other teams and other members of turbomachinery team to achieve design goals
- Design and analyze rotating and stationary turbomachinery components in the Archimedes turbomachinery
- Support manufacturing of turbomachinery components
- Support component level and engine level testing
- Support flight campaign preparations, flight operations, flight data and hardware review, and reuse campaigns
- As a subject matter expert, help define the methodology used across the company for turbomachinery design, analysis, manufacturing, and test
- Travel on an occasional basis to engineering offices, test sites, and launch sites to support development of turbomachinery
- Serve as launch site engineering team liaison on an occasional basis for rapid on-site support
Preferred Qualifications
- Proficiency in GD&T
- Professional experience with NX, Ansys & BladeGen, StarCCM
- Rocket turbomachinery experience and flowpath design
- Experience with compressible flows, cryogenic and real-gas fluids
- Experience with best practices for design, qualification and production
- Experience with a scrappy development environment