Turbomachinery Structural Analysis Engineer
About the role
Turbomachinery Structural Analysis Engineers at Boom Supersonic are responsible for owning the entire structural analysis process from hardware to life prediction. This includes analyzing rotating and static hardware, setting margins, and working closely with aeromechanics to ensure high-frequency and thermal-mechanical fatigue risks are mitigated.
Responsibilities
- Own structural analysis of rotating and static hardware across the engine: disks, blisks, bladed disks, cored blades, shafts, cases, frames, mounts, and joints
- Predict life across the failure modes that matter: disk burst, LCF, HCF, creep, and thermal-mechanical fatigue
- Build the structural and thermal whole-engine models the discipline runs on, and the material models underneath them
- Set frequency margin and clear high-cycle fatigue risk alongside aeromechanics and aero, iterating designs rather than rejecting them
- Right-size the analysis to the question: hand calcs and coarse models when speed is what's needed, high-fidelity and test-correlated work when the risk earns it
- Plan and support engine and rig testing, including instrumentation, being in the cell, and correlating prediction against measurement afterward
- Disposition real hardware: evaluate non-conformances and support redesign on parts that are already built
- Build the tools and automation the discipline depends on, and improve the analysis standards the team works to
Requirements
- Hands-on structural analysis experience on turbomachinery or other rotating hardware, or airframe stress experience plus real appetite for rotating hardware
- Command of the fundamentals: load paths reasoned by hand, boundary conditions you can defend, and the judgment to know when a converged result is still wrong
- Life prediction experience across at least one of LCF, HCF, or creep
- A specialty you're genuinely deep in, and curiosity about the ones you aren't
- Comfort making a sound engineering call before all the information is in, and stating it as a conclusion rather than a hedge
Qualifications
- Fracture mechanics and damage tolerance experience, including setting or defending an inspection interval
- Rotordynamics depth: critical speeds, bearing stiffness, unbalance response
- Engine or rig test experience: instrumentation planning, clearing vibes, strain gauges or blade tip timing, post-test correlation
- Whole-engine modeling experience
- Part 33 or equivalent certification exposure on life-limited rotating parts
- Real software habits: tools you built that other people still use
Skills
- Hands-on structural analysis experience on turbomachinery or other rotating hardware
- Command of the fundamentals: load paths reasoned by hand, boundary conditions you can defend, and the judgment to know when a converged result is still wrong
- Life prediction experience across at least one of LCF, HCF, or creep
- A specialty you're genuinely deep in, and curiosity about the ones you aren't
- Comfort making a sound engineering call before all the information is in, and stating it as a conclusion rather than a hedge
Benefits
- Competitive cash compensation
- Significant upside potential through meaningful equity grants
- Progressive benefits designed to support employees' well-being and growth
Pay
- P2 Level - Typically 0 - 4 years of experience - Base salary range: $107,000 - $144,000
- P3 Level - Typically 5 - 10 years of experience - Base salary range: $124,000 - $167,000
- P4 Level - Typically 10 - 15 years of experience - Base salary range: $139,000 - $187,000
- P5 Level - Typically 15 + years of experience - Base salary range: $152,500 – $205,000
Schedule
- Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, location, experience, and performance.
Why Boom?
The mission Engineering roles at Boom are unlike anything else in aerospace or energy: designing a supersonic airliner from first principles, developing advanced propulsion systems, scaling complex hardware programs in a modern manufacturing environment, and building breakthrough industrial turbines to power the next generation of AI data centers. These aren't jobs. They are career-defining opportunities. Some may even find their calling. This is a chance to build more than a product. It's a chance to build a company that history will remember.
ITAR Requirement
To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.