R&D Engineer II (SRM Ballistician) (Remote Option Available)
About The Position
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (OTS) is seeking a Ballistician to join their Solid Rocket Motor Engineering Team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for generating rocket motor concepts from high-level thrust/burn time requirements and refining them into detailed grain and nozzle designs. This role requires collaboration to define propellant grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust curves, and pressure profiles. The candidate will work with design engineers to communicate operating pressures, analysts to communicate temperature and load profiles, chemists to communicate ballistic requirements, and manufacturing engineers to ensure grain geometry can be produced. This is a full-time position with a 9/80 schedule and offers a remote option or work at their Huntsville, AL or Hampton, AR facility.
Requirements
- Associate's Degree and 2-4 years' experience
- Engineering degree required
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's Degree
- Product innovation.
- Product intelligence.
- Product research.
- Project scoping.
- Quantitative research.
- Research and development.
- Research documentation.
- Oral and written communication skills.
- Critical thinking.
- Analytical thinking.
Responsibilities
- Conducts research, design, and development activities with the goal of developing new or improved products, processes, or services.
- Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
- Applies research theories, principles, and models when conducting experiments and research activities.
- Conducts market research, tracks projects, builds spreadsheets evaluating trade space, designs presentation slides, and executes business-oriented tasks.
- Summarizes research results and communicates findings to internal and external bodies.
- Assesses the scope of research projects and ensures projects are on time and within budget.
- Develops technical documentation for all projects.
- Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
- Create rocket motor concepts to meet customer requirements.
- Refine grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust and pressure curves in collaboration with other stakeholders.
- Lead static fire test campaigns and ground-based prototyping.
- Analyze test data to validate performance and investigate any anomalies.
- Reduce strand burner, subscale and fullscale motor data to determine burn rate properties of propellants.
- Oversee propellant casting, curing cycles, and review of tool designs.
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and basic life insurance
- pre-tax spending accounts
- 401k plan
- Non-Contributory Retirement Contribution
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Insurance
- Identify Theft Protection
- Enhanced Legal Services
- Auto and Home Insurance
- Pet Insurance
- Commuter Benefits
- Hospital Indemnity Insurance
- Educational Assistance
- 11 paid holidays
- 120 hours of PTO annually
- up to 3 weeks paid family leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
