Staff Turbomachinery Engineer

About the role

As a Staff Turbomachinery Engineer at Impulse Space, you will design, analyze, build and test high performance turbomachinery while working closely with a fast paced, agile team.

Responsibilities

• Design turbomachinery components for a high performance liquid rocket engine
• Perform 1-D sizing and detailed flowpath design for liquid inducers, stators, and impellers, as well as hot gas turbine rotors and stators
• Perform sizing and detailed design of secondary fluid flowpaths for bearings, seals, and coolant paths
• Perform detailed structural analysis of turbomachinery components
• Work with design and build teams to ensure hardware is highly manufacturable, low cost, and high reliability
• Work with build and test teams to ensure success of turbopump manufacturing and testing

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or science
• 7+ years' of relevant turbomachinery experience
• Proficiency in basic principles of fluids, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics, and materials
• Demonstrated experience with fluids and structural analysis software
• Demonstrated experience with CAD to design hardware
• Knowledge of turbomachinery design and analysis practices
• Knowledge of turbopump assembly procedures, including rotor balancing, interference fits and clearance checks
• Demonstrated ability of taking project ownership and working well in small team
• Flexible schedule and willing to travel as needed
• Must be a U.S. Person (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Master’s degree or higher in aerospace, mechanical, or electrical engineering with emphasis on laboratory and/or practical applications
• Strong proficiency in fluids modeling of compressible and incompressible flow
• Experience in manufacturing and test of stationary and rotating turbomachinery components
• Experience with turbopump bearings, seals, and assembly processes
• Experience performing turbomachinery analyses (bladed CFD, structural, modal, rotordynamics)
• Experience designing bladed turbopump components (inducers, impellers, turbines)
• Experience in manufacturing of stationary and rotating turbomachinery components
• Familiarity with turbomachinery rotor-dynamic analysis and considerations

Pay

$150,000 - $200,000 / year

Benefits

• Stock options (long-term incentives)
• Medical, vision, and dental coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan