Sr Prin R&D Engineer - SRM Ballistician (Remote)

General Dynamics Ordnance & Tactical Systems•Huntsville, AL

7d•Remote

About The Position

We are currently seeking a Ballistician to join our growing 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 into detailed grain and nozzle designs. The job 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. This position can be remote or at our Huntsville, AL or Hampton, AR facility.

Requirements

Associate's Degree and 10-12 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.
Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
Conducts market research, tracks projects, builds spreadsheets evaluating trade space, designs presentation slides, and executes business-oriented tasks.
Draws on technical background to learn complex systems, systems of systems, and technologies needed to understand products and services; then, applies a creative and open-minded approach to problem solve, seeking and finding new robust solutions.
Evolves business strategy through assimilation of new technology, evaluating competition, researching industry movement, road-mapping, and conducting SWOTs.
Conducts initial business case evaluations, building strategy and identifying value propositions mutually beneficial to the business and customer alike (e.g. differentiation, price to win, etc.).
Summarizes research results and communicates findings to internal and external bodies.
Develops technical documentation for all projects.
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
paid holidays
120 hours of PTO annually
up to 3 weeks paid family leave