Design and Systems Engineering Supervisor

About the role

Join North Wind Accelerating Hypersonic Innovation. At North Wind, we are advancing hypersonic technologies through cutting-edge research, system development, and flight testing. Our team drives innovation in high-speed aerodynamics, propulsion systems, and mission-critical components, supporting every phase of hypersonic programs — from R&D to flight testing. If you are passionate about pushing technological boundaries in a dynamic environment, we invite you to join us. The Design and Systems Engineering Supervisor researches, plans, and designs mechanical and electromechanical products and systems.

Responsibilities

• Supervises a small team of engineers, providing mentorship, reviewing output of team members, and driving design tasks to closure.
• Manages engineering related budgets and schedules and tracks team performance accordingly.
• Performs CAD modeling, stress hand calculations, mechanical design, instrumentation packaging, material research, tolerance stacks and other related tasks to progress the engineering solution.
• Supports customer interface meetings, internal project status meetings, and tracks engineering schedule and budget performance at a task level.
• Generates project bill of materials, resource requests, engineering reports, design review presentations, assembly & instrumentation instructions, interface control documents, and other related documents to record and disseminate the engineering solution to customers as well as downstream functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering discipline with 10+ years of related experience, or a combination of education and experience equivalent to above.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-starter able to work on multiple projects and prioritize workload.
• General familiarity with aerospace research and development test products such as wind tunnel models, test engines and prototype devices, and analysis of these in the subsonic, transonic and hypersonic realms.
• US citizenship required to obtain/maintain a DOD security clearance.

Skills

• Experienced in the design and analysis of gas turbine, ramjet and scramjet engines and/or liquid propellant rockets and related system design and analysis.
• Experienced with engineering CAD codes; preferably SOLIDWORKS and/or NX.
• Experienced with engineering thermal and structural analysis codes; preferably ANSYS.
• General understanding of computational fluid dynamic techniques and limitations.
• Familiar with aerospace test device instrumentation sensors and selection for specific test objectives.
• Experienced with detailed drawing, checking, GD&T and tolerance stacks.