Engine Performance & Operability Engineer
About The Position
Boom Supersonic is developing Symphony, the engine for their supersonic airliner Overture, and adapting Superpower, an industrial gas turbine, for AI data centers. This role focuses on providing defensible answers for Superpower's design and testing decisions regarding power, heat rate, stall margin, starts, and load response. The engineer will own a defined performance and operability scope, collaborating with various engineering teams to diagnose issues and recommend solutions. This work aims to build Boom's in-house engine-level design capability for Superpower and establish methods for Symphony, ensuring predictions align with measured behavior before critical decisions are made.
Requirements
- Aerothermodynamic fundamentals and depth in engine performance or operability appropriate to your level.
- Hands-on use of NPSS, PyCycle, GasTurb, or a comparable engine-analysis environment through industry, research, or substantial academic projects.
- Ability to explain component assumptions, maps, limits, and uncertainty behind a cycle prediction.
- Test, laboratory, or research exposure to instrumentation, data reduction, or model-to-data comparison.
- Python or equivalent used for reproducible engineering analysis, with clear technical communication.
- 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.
Nice To Haves
- Transient, starting, or sub-idle modeling experience.
- Ownership of stall-margin stack-ups and design/control trades.
- Free-power-turbine or industrial-gas-turbine experience alongside aero-engine work, or the reverse.
- Experience building tested, documented engineering tools others maintain and use.
Responsibilities
- Own steady-state and transient cycle-modeling and operability-analysis scope for Superpower and Symphony, with documented assumptions and checks.
- Assess stall margin and operability across transients, start behavior, and load response with component and controls teams.
- Define performance and operability test questions and instrumentation needs with the test team.
- Reduce test data, reconcile measured results with predictions, and calibrate models with evidence.
- Integrate compressor, turbine, combustion, and secondary-air trades into engine-level recommendations and answer customer power and heat-rate questions.
- Build shared PyCycle models and tools that make recurring analyses reproducible.
Benefits
- Long-term incentives/equity
- Flexible PTO policy
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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