Structural Engineer, Thermofluids

Required

• The below is a starting point. We always make space for exceptional people, so if you don't fit this role exactly, tell us where you would.
• 10+ years of experience in structural analysis and design of rotating and pressure-containing hardware, including FEA, rotordynamics, and containment.
• You’ve taken a pressure-containing design from calculation through to a fabricated article, and it held.
• You’ve run FEA on rotating hardware and correlated it against strain gauge, spin-pit or test data rather than trusting the model.
• You’ve owned a containment or burst case and made the argument for why it holds to people whose safety depended on it.
• You’ve worked the modal and critical-speed problem jointly with whoever designed the aerodynamics, early enough to change both.
• You’ve signed off a structure that got built, and you were there when it was first loaded.
• You're comfortable with regular travel: expect 25% or more, depending on business needs.
• Most of our engineering team, stakeholders, and work are based in Austin, TX, and we value working in person. We have a strong preference for Austin and run a hybrid model, but we're open to other locations for the right role and candidate.
• Bonus: Flight and propulsion structures (spin pit testing, burst margin, containment). Rotordynamics and bearing dynamics. High-cycle fatigue and fracture on rotating hardware. Pressure vessel and containment design. Professional Engineer license.
• We are committed to pay equity and transparency.
• Fluidstack is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Fluidstack will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.