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Senior Turbomachinery Engineer

Senior Turbomachinery Engineer

CompanyRocket Lab USA
LocationLong Beach, CA, USA
Salary$116000 – $145000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesBachelor’s
Experience LevelSenior

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