Test 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 test engineering for rotating machinery or high-energy mechanical systems, including test stand design, instrumentation, and data analysis.
• You’ve commissioned a test stand from a bare bay: instrumentation, calibration, shakedown, first article.
• You’ve taken a machine to failure deliberately and had it instrumented well enough to know exactly why it failed.
• You’ve owned an uncertainty budget and could tell someone what your measurement was actually worth.
• You’ve written interlock and abort logic that kept people safe around stored energy, high pressure or high speed.
• You’ve disagreed with a design team about what the data showed, and the data won.
• You’ve carried a failure investigation to a root cause that changed the hardware, rather than to a plausible story that closed the paperwork.
• Bonus: Propulsion and engine test (hot fire, spin pit, green run). Rotating machinery test (compressors, turbines, motor test benches). High-pressure gas loops and pressure-rated test rigs. Data acquisition and rig control (LabVIEW, NI, PLC-based stands). Thermal and refrigeration performance testing (COP mapping, calorimetry).
• 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.