Liquid System Responsible Engineer III - Lunar Permanence

About the role

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin’s Blue Moon landers and related products. The goal is to build sustainable infrastructure for transporting crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

Responsibilities

• Designing propellant management devices for human-rated flight
• Performing fluid and structural analysis in support of your designs
• Coordinating design for manufacturability efforts for advanced fluid hardware
• Working with cross-functional teams to execute on your designs

Requirements

• B.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related field
• 8+ years of experience designing cryogenic fluid components, preferably in the space industry
• Significant experience in design and analysis of complex micro-gravity hardware like PMD (Propellant Management Devices) or LAD (Liquid Acquisition Devices)
• Expertise in design and verification of cryogenic hardware by Test, writing Test plans, and executing test and evaluation of the test data
• Ability to create multiphase cryogenic tools in MATLAB/Python
• Serve as the technical mentor to other members, strong hands-on experience, and ability to coach the team through challenging technical problems

Qualifications

• Expertise in thermal modeling tool SINDA/FLUINT or Thermal Desktop is preferred
• Previous technical lead experience is a plus
• Experience in Propulsion Budget development of space vehicle going through mission timeline is a plus
• Experience with modeling propulsion/cryogenic fluids management (storage, transfer, phase change, …)
• Knowledge of other tools including MATLAB, Simulink, Amesim
• Advanced Engineering degree
• Experience with static and non-linear FEA analysis (ANSYS)
• Knowledge of ASME Y14.5 geometric dimensioning and tolerance