Turbomachinery Engineer II / Senior Turbomachinery Engineer I/II

Rocket Lab Corporation • Long Beach, CA

1d • $126,000 - $176,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Turbomachinery Engineer position will be based out of Rocket Lab's headquarters in Long Beach, CA. This future role is responsible for the design and development of the turbomachinery hardware for the Archimedes engine and will provide the opportunity for full life cycle ownership of clean sheet turbopump design. You will support the Neutron and Archimedes teams, with deliverables required for internal leadership, board of directors, and investors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a mechanical or aerospacen engineering or discipline or equivalent
• Experience with commercial design and analysis software
• Fundamental understanding of mechanical design and fluid dynamics principles
• 2+ years of turbomachinery design experience (for Turbomachinery Engineer II)
• 5+ years of turbomachinery design experience (for Senior Turbomachinery Engineer I)
• 8+ years of turbomachinery design experience (for Senior Turbomachinery Engineer II)

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency in GD&T
• Professional experience with NX, Ansys & BladeGen, StarCCM
• Rocket turbomachinery experience and flowpath design
• Experience with compressible flows, cryogenic and real-gas fluids
• Experience with best practices for design, qualification and production
• Experience with a scrappy development environment

Responsibilities

• Responsible engineer of significant turbomachinery components/systems
• Drive design, manufacturing, testing, and flight to meet cost, life, reusability, and reliability milestones
• Work with other teams and other members of turbomachinery team to achieve design goals
• Design and analyze rotating and stationary turbomachinery components in the Archimedes turbomachinery. This will include both hydrodynamics, mechanical, secondary systems, and integrated analysis of the turbomachinery
• Next-generation flowpath design and benchmarking of existing designs
• Work with turbomachinery team to drive pump head and suction performance improvements
• Support manufacturing of turbomachinery components
• Work with Manufacturing team to design components for optimal manufacturability
• Support component level and engine level testing.
• Work with other engine teams to ensure that pump testing needs are enveloped in engine development, qualification, and acceptance testing campaigns
• Ensure testing satisfies certification requirements
• Support flight campaign preparations, flight operations, flight data and hardware review, and reuse campaigns
• Evaluate early flight data to support certification efforts
• Work with vehicle fluids teams to ensure stable pump operation and performance in all phases of flight, leveraging test and other resources
• As a subject matter expert, help define the methodology used across the company for turbomachinery design, analysis, manufacturing, and test.
• Travel on an occasional basis to engineering offices, test sites, and launch sites to support development of turbomachinery
• Serve as launch site engineering team liaison on an occasional basis for rapid on-site support

Benefits

• top tier medical HMO, PPO & a 100% company-sponsored medical HSA plan option
• dental and vision coverage
• 3 weeks paid vacation and 5 days sick leave per year
• 11 paid holidays per year
• flexible spending and dependent care savings accounts
• paid parental leave
• disability insurance
• life insurance
• access to a 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Discounted employee stock purchase program
• subsidized EV charging stations
• onsite gym
• food and drinks
• other discounts

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level