BE-7 System Thermal Analyst

Blue Origin • Southgate, WA

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About The Position

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We’re working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight! This role is part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, where our focus is the design, development, manufacturing, and testing of engines and propulsion systems. Built for multiple uses, our family of engines is powering the next generation of rockets for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight. Applies standard engineering techniques to collect, aggregate, and analyze data measuring the performance and reliability of propulsion systems and components to or improve design, producibility, and efficiencies. Evaluates and analyzes propulsion systems to establish environments and ensure that hardware is appropriately specified for those environments. Identifies trends in technical performance or reliability and prepares reports detailing these trends as well as anticipated impact or cost to the organization. Develops, releases, and supports engineering artifacts across the development cycle to support hardware design, fabrication, assembly, verification, test, and operations. As part of a hardworking team of engineers, you will be working as the System Thermal Analyst of the BE-7 in-space engine. You will be working with the Engines Thermal Analysis group among experts in heat transfer and flow network modeling. Growing your engineering knowledge and system understanding as you go, you will directly contribute to the design and qualification of the most advanced liquid rocket engines being developed today. You will participate in all stages of rocket engine development, from concept through detailed design and test support. Your responsibilities might include building and evaluating large-scale assembly models suitable for quantifying subsystem interactions and ancillary component environments or performing detailed subcomponent finite element analyses to resolve local temperatures and gradients on valves, injectors, chambers, nozzles, thrusters, igniters, and related components. You will predict the thermal states of rocket engine components and assemblies through mission transients to aid performance and structural analyses, directly impacting engine performance and safety. Relying on your fundamentals in heat transfer, you will anchor thermal models to test data and make recommendations for updated instrumentation suites on subsequent test campaigns.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline with 5+ years of experience performing thermal/fluid analysis or Master’s degree in an engineering discipline with 3+ years of experience performing thermal/fluid analysis
• Experienced Thermal Desktop, SINDA/FLUINT user
• Solid understanding of heat transfer, flow, and thermodynamic first principles
• Experience correlating thermal models to test and/or flight data
• Good communication skills and proficiency with productivity tools

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree (Master’s or higher) in an engineering discipline with a focus on thermal or fluid sciences
• 7-10+ years of experience performing thermal/fluid analysis
• Design, analysis and integration experience of spacecraft and rocket engine thermal systems
• Experience using thermal analysis tools (SINDA/G, SINDA/FLUINT, TSS)
• Knowledge of Fortran, Python and MATLAB
• Rocket Engine and/or spacecraft/satellite background with experience through the entire system lifecycle from concept, design, production, integration, test, launch and operation support
• Knowledge surrounding cryogens and phase change heat transfer
• Prior experience in thermal/fluid testing and instrumentation definition

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain system-level thermal analysis models of rocket engines at varying levels of maturity and detail.
• Monitor and incorporate vehicle hardware updates, CONOPs changes, interface modifications, and other relevant thermal interface developments
• Incorporate system-level requirements into clear technical direction for system and component thermal analysis
• Meticulous bookkeeping of model status and changes through time
• Document and peer review thermal analyses and design results
• Report results of analyses and design specifics to internal management and external customers
• Work and execute independently with minimal technical oversight and general direction
• Contribute to Communities of Practice on best practices and analysis methodologies.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance, paid parental leave, short and long-term disability, 401(k) with a company match of up to 5%, and an Education Support Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to four (4) weeks per year based on weekly scheduled hours, and up to 14 company-paid holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees