Principal Fluids Engineer Verified today
Principal Fluids Engineer
This role supports the development and operations of New Glenn, a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle capable of carrying people and payloads to low-Earth orbit, geostationary transfer orbit, cislunar, and beyond. Its first stage is fully reusable and designed from the beginning to be human-capable.
As part of a small team of experts, you will support all aspects of fluid systems design for the New Glenn launch vehicle. You will share in the team's impact on systems from early conceptual design and configuration through flight operations and sustaining engineering.
Responsibilities
- Lead analysis-intensive development and verification of component and vehicle-level fluid models
- Develop fluid and thermal loads derived from CFD, first principles, literature, and experimentation
- Own configuration development, detailed design, and verification activities
- Maintain documentation and analysis inputs, models, and results in reports and data books
- Review and critique models and results developed by junior engineers
Minimum Qualifications
- BS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
- 15 or more years of experience in fluids or thermodynamic analysis
- Demonstrated expertise with one or more fluid modeling tools: SINDA/FLUINT or Thermal Desktop
- Knowledge of MATLAB or similar scripting tools
- Experience analyzing booster and upper stage of rocket systems
- Experience reviewing and critiquing models and results developed by junior engineers
Preferred Qualifications
- 20 or more years of experience and an MS or PhD degree
- Experience with FloCAD
- Experience analyzing cryogenic fluid systems
- Experience with commercial CFD for fluid systems
- Knowledge of 3D CAD tools (CREO preferred)
Compensation
Base pay range: Colorado applicants $160,618 to $224,864.85 annually; Washington applicants $169,624 to $237,473.25 annually. Other site ranges may differ.
Employment Requirements
Applicants must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance
- Paid parental leave, short and long-term disability
- 401(k) with company match up to 5%
- Education Support Program
- Stock options for all regular employees (20+ hours per week)
- Up to four weeks paid time off annually based on scheduled hours
- Up to 14 company-paid holidays
- Eligible bonuses based on role, level, and individual contributions