Fluids Engineer II

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 thermal and fluid system design for various New Glenn spaceflight systems.
• Share in the team’s impact on the systems through their entire lifetime from early conceptual design and configuration through flight operations and sustaining engineering.
• Implement aerothermal, rocket plume heating, and natural environments during all phases of flight.
• Own the documentation and maintenance of analysis inputs, models, and results in reports and data books.

Requirements

• Minimum of BS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 2 or more years of experience in the fields of thermal or thermodynamic analysis.
• Experience with one or more fluid or thermal modeling tools is required (e.g., ANSYS Workbench, ANSYS Classic, SINDA/FLUINT, Thermal Desktop, etc.).

Qualifications

• Desired: 4 or more years of experience and a MS degree.
• Desired: Demonstrated expertise with Thermal Desktop, SINDA/FLUINT, FloCAD.
• Desired: Experience modeling launch vehicle systems.
• Desired: Experience with cryogenic systems.
• Desired: Knowledge of MATLAB.

Benefits

• Base Pay Range: $90,934.00 - $127,307.25 for CO applicants, $99,201.00 - $138,880.35 for WA applicants.
• Other site ranges may differ.
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