Fluid Systems Engineer II - Valve Sustainment Verified today
About This Role
This position supports New Glenn, a single-configuration heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle designed to carry people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. As the primary technical point of contact between design engineers and manufacturing, you will ensure successful production of flight-proven valve components.
You will become the expert on valve design history, critical functions, and performance parameters. By embedding with procurement, testing, and operations teams, you will identify and solve design and build challenges, lead design-for-manufacturability reviews, and drive process improvements. You will resolve complex issues with high-pressure, cryogenic, and highly-stressed hardware, ensuring the manufactured product meets its original design intent.
Key Responsibilities
- Production and Manufacturing Support
- Act as first point of contact for production, providing hands-on floor support to troubleshoot and resolve manufacturing challenges.
- Disposition non-conforming hardware by interpreting engineering models, drawings, and specifications.
- Serve as key resource for producibility, collaborating with cross-functional teams to optimize processes and designs.
- Design Improvement and Sustaining Engineering
- Investigate and identify opportunities to improve legacy designs for manufacturability, cost, and reliability.
- Develop and implement design improvements and update assembly and test procedures based on root cause analysis and production feedback.
- Drive design for manufacturability (DFM) reviews for internally-built and supplier hardware.
- Analysis and Documentation
- Utilize 3D CAD and FEA tools to analyze existing designs and proposed modifications.
- Deliver completed design updates using best drafting practices per ASME Y14.5 GD&T standards.
- Create clear and well-documented analysis reports to substantiate design changes.
Minimum Qualifications
- B.S. degree in Manufacturing, Industrial, Mechanical, Aerospace Engineering, or related technical field.
- 3+ years of experience in manufacturing or design engineering environment, supporting production of complex mechanical or fluid systems.
- Solid understanding of fluid components such as valves, regulators, and fittings, as well as core concepts in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.
- Practical knowledge of common manufacturing processes, fabrication methods, and quality control for machined components.
- Experience interpreting GD&T (ASME Y14.5) and reviewing engineering drawings.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with demonstrated ability to build trust and work effectively across different teams.
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience transitioning products from design/development into high-rate production environment.
- Expertise with cryogenic fluid systems (e.g., hydrogen, oxygen, methane) and materials.
- Proficiency with 3D CAD software (Creo preferred, but experience with SolidWorks, NX, etc., is valuable) and FEA tools (e.g., ANSYS).
- Experience with component/system level testing, troubleshooting, and data acquisition.
- Project management skills, including supplier management experience.
Compensation and Benefits
Base Pay Range (WA applicants): $99,201.00 - $138,880.35
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match up to 5%
- Stock options for regular employees (20+ hours/week)
- Paid time off: up to 4 weeks per year and up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Education Support Program