Mechanical Engineering Manager

About the role

This role builds the group that owns turbomachinery structures and mechanical design at Boom, starting from a small, strong core. You will own the technical integrity of the engine's rotating and static hardware: disks, cases, airfoils, blisks, and the mechanical systems around them. This is a hands-on leadership seat. You set the rigor bar and build the team, and you stay close enough to the analysis to know when a result is wrong.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead the structures and mechanical team across stress, mechanical design, bearings and seals, turbine design, and rotordynamics
• Own the structural integrity calls and non-conformance dispositions on rotating hardware
• Set the analytical standard: right-size fidelity to where the program is, know the limits of FEA and material data, and catch results that are wrong or too optimistic
• Stay in the work, turning the crank on the hardest problems, and drive automation with rigor
• Bring structural analysis and mechanical design in-house and build the tooling and standards the team runs on
• Grow the team, sourcing and developing specialists across disciplines, and raise the bar with every hire

Requirements

• Deep experience in turbomachinery or rotating-hardware structures and mechanical design
• First-principles command of stress and vibration: disk burst, LCF, HCF, TMF, and rotordynamics, with the judgment to bound a result by hand
• Tolerancing and GD&T with real awareness of how designs get made
• A track record of building and leading strong technical teams and shipping hard hardware under real constraints
• The instinct to lead the work, not just the org, and ideally to code and automate

Qualifications

• Not a traditional engineering leadership job

Skills

• Not applicable

Benefits

• Not applicable

Pay

• P5 Level - Typically 15 + years of experience - Base salary range: $160,000 – $203,000

Schedule

• Not applicable