Propulsion Engineer, Combustion Devices Manufacturing (Raptor)

Preferred

• Master’s degree or higher in mechanical, aerospace, or aeronautical/astronautical engineering.
• 3+ years of professional or intense academic experience working with jet or rocket engines or other high-pressure fluid systems with tight timelines and high consequences of failure.
• Demonstrable proficiency in the basic principles of compressible and incompressible flow, combustion processes, combustion instability, acoustics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, thermochemistry, mechanics, and materials. Ability to apply first principles approach to quick models and estimates.
• Experience designing and testing combustor injector elements and associated fluid manifolds.
• Experience owning test campaigns, analyzing data and hardware to make technical decisions based on findings.
• Experience with engine system operation including startup/shutdown transients and mainstage trim.
• Experience designing parts and assemblies in professional CAD packages such as Siemens NX or Solidworks.
• Experience designing for manufacturing and implementing designs into manufacturing process, including iterating designs based on downstream feedback