Aerothermal Engineer II – New Glenn

About the role

This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a single-configuration, heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of routinely carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable, and the vehicle was designed from the beginning to be human-capable.

Responsibilities

• Support all aspects of aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic design for various spaceflight systems.
• Share in the team’s impact on all aspects of the systems through their entire lifecycle from early conceptual design and configuration through flight operations and sustaining engineering.
• Be analysis intensive, primarily supporting development and verification of vehicle-level aerothermal and rocket plume models and loads.
• Develop and document aerothermodynamic models and databases for space launch and reentry vehicles using hand calculations, engineering methods, numerical methods, and detailed test methods.
• Derive space vehicle aerothermal environments.
• Model rocket plume environments, both direct impingement and indirect heating.
• Use CFD modeling tools such as LAURA, DPLR, FUN3D, US3D, and scripting and programming languages for automation and data manipulation.
• Use Link3D and US3D for multiphysics simulations of hypersonic flows.
• Develop tool development using MATLAB.
• Use 3D CAD tools like CREO for 3D CAD.

Requirements

• BS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• 2+ years of experience in the fields of aerothermal or thermodynamic analysis
• Strong aerodynamic fundamentals and intuition through multiple flight regimes (subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, free molecular flow)
• Proven experience deriving space vehicle aerothermal environments
• Proven experience with one or more aerothermal CFD modeling tools (LAURA, DPLR, FUN3D, US3D, etc.)
• Experience with CFD pre and post processing (Pointwise, Link3D, Ensight, Tecplot, etc.)
• Proven track record using scripting and programming languages for automation and data manipulation

Qualifications

• MS or higher degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• Experience modeling rocket plume environments, both direct impingement and indirect heating
• Experience with Link3D and US3D
• Experience in Multiphysics simulations of hypersonic flows
• Knowledge in the use of 3D CAD tools (CREO)

Skills

• Technical expertise
• Leadership skills
• Dedication to quality
• Passion for the mission and vision

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Basic and supplemental life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Short and long-term disability
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%
• Education Support Program
• Stock Options
• Paid Time Off
• Other benefits and bonuses based on the company's intent to reward individual contributions and enable them to share in the company's results, or other factors at the company's sole discretion

Pay

For CO applicants is $90,934.00 - $127,307.25
WA applicants is $99,201.00 - $138,880.35
Other site ranges may differ.

Schedule

Details on schedule not specified in the job posting.