Responsibilities

The turbopump is the heart of the engine and sets its performance ceiling. In this role you own turbopump hardware outright: its design definition, its interfaces, the analysis that backs it, and how it performs in build and on the stand. You will work the full lifecycle, from architecture trades and detailed design through fabrication, hot fire, and flight, and you will own the case that the hardware meets its requirements. Senior engineers here also set the technical bar for the people around them, reviewing design work and bringing along the Level I and Level II engineers on the team. This is where you put your name on flight hardware.
Bring a culture of creativity to every design challenge. Own each solution or improvement with true accountability, seeing it through to completion.
Own the mechanical design and development of turbopump hardware from concept through hot fire testing and flight: inducers, impellers, diffusers, volutes, turbine stages, dynamic seals, bearing supports, pump housings and assemblies.
Lead architecture trades on the pump and turbine, including shaft speed, stage count, specific speed, bearing and seal arrangement, and how each of those choices lands against the engine cycle.
Integrate hydro, aero, structures, rotordynamics, secondary flow, thermal, and bearing constraints into a single design definition the rest of the team can build to.
Perform and direct analysis: hand calculations, FEA, rotordynamic models, secondary flow and axial thrust balance, and life prediction for high-stress, high-cycle hardware.
Own the verification argument for your hardware. Decide what closes by analysis and what has to close on the stand, write the plan, and see both through.
Select materials and manufacturing processes for cryogenic, high-speed, high-stress service, including castings, forgings, and additive parts.
Generate detailed component and assembly drawings, design definitions, process specifications, and interface control documents.
Drive hardware through fabrication and build: vendor engagement, first article review, and nonconformance disposition.
Define and execute component and engine test campaigns. Author instrumentation requests, support test days in real time, reduce the data, and compare it against prediction.
Lead root cause investigations on turbopump anomalies and carry the corrective action into both the design and the build paper.

Senior Powerpack Engineer at Cowboyspace · LumiJobs

Senior Powerpack Engineer

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Cowboyspace

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