Pumps Fluids Analyst Sr – 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 role involves performing fluids analysis on Lunar vehicle components (pumps) and providing design recommendations to Responsible Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Perform fluids analysis on Lunar vehicle components (pumps)
• Use insights from these analyses to provide design recommendations to Responsible Engineers
• Apply a range of analysis tools and methodologies to design and analyze primary flowpath performance
• Generate and run secondary flow analysis models and provide design feedback
• Support test support to anchor analytical models and help with product development
• Provide expert guidance on pump design and quantify performance over a variety of environments
• Optimize and co-develop pump designs for efficiency, power consumption, system integration, manufacturability, cost, mass, leakage, reliability
• Lead a small team working on fluid analysis throughout the product lifecycle
• See hardware mature from an initial CAD model to flight-qualified hardware installed onto one of our Lunar vehicles
• Able to apply technical expertise, leadership skills, communication skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight

Qualifications

• M.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related field
• 5+ years of experience in thermal and/or fluids analysis and mechanical component design
• 5+ years of experience with classical hand calculations for thermal and/or fluids analysis based on common aerospace reference materials (Shigley, Bruhn, Roark etc.)
• 3+ years of experience with Ansys CFX, Ansys Fluent, workbench or other CFD analysis software
• 2+ years of experience with thermal desktop, FloCAD, or other thermal analysis software
• Experience with a wide variety of manufacturing methods, material selection, testing, characterization & allowable development
• Desired Experience: analyzing cryogenic components, script automation in Ansys workbench, experience working on human-rated space hardware, experience working with NASA requirements

Pay

Base Pay Range For CA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20 CO applicants is $133,500.00 - $186,898.95 WA applicants is $145,188.00 - $203,263.20 Other Site Ranges May Differ