Turbomachinery Structural Analysis Engineer

Boom Supersonic•Centennial, CO

132d•$107,000 - $205,000•Onsite

About The Position

Boom Supersonic is building the breakthrough Overture supersonic airliner and the Superpower natural gas turbine. This role is not a traditional structural analysis job; it offers ownership of structural analysis end-to-end on rotating and static hardware, including loads and boundary conditions through model, margin, and life. The engineer will work closely with aerodynamicists, build structural and thermal whole-engine models, predict life across various failure modes, and right-size analysis to the question. The position also involves planning and supporting engine and rig testing, evaluating non-conformances on hardware, and building tools and automation for the discipline. The work environment is demanding, fast-paced, and requires operating at a high standard with visible work to company leadership.

Requirements

Hands-on structural analysis experience on turbomachinery or other rotating hardware, or airframe stress experience plus real appetite for rotating hardware
Command of the fundamentals: load paths reasoned by hand, boundary conditions you can defend, and the judgment to know when a converged result is still wrong
Life prediction experience across at least one of LCF, HCF, or creep
A specialty you're genuinely deep in, and curiosity about the ones you aren't
Comfort making a sound engineering call before all the information is in, and stating it as a conclusion rather than a hedge
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 (ITAR Requirement)

Nice To Haves

Fracture mechanics and damage tolerance experience, including setting or defending an inspection interval
Rotordynamics depth: critical speeds, bearing stiffness, unbalance response
Engine or rig test experience: instrumentation planning, clearing vibes, strain gauges or blade tip timing, post-test correlation
Whole-engine modeling experience
Part 33 or equivalent certification exposure on life-limited rotating parts
Real software habits: tools you built that other people still use

Responsibilities

Own structural analysis of rotating and static hardware across the engine: disks, blisks, bladed disks, cored blades, shafts, cases, frames, mounts, and joints
Predict life across the failure modes that matter: disk burst, LCF, HCF, creep, and thermal-mechanical fatigue
Build the structural and thermal whole-engine models the discipline runs on, and the material models underneath them
Set frequency margin and clear high-cycle fatigue risk alongside aeromechanics and aero, iterating designs rather than rejecting them
Right-size the analysis to the question: hand calcs and coarse models when speed is what's needed, high-fidelity and test-correlated work when the risk earns it
Plan and support engine and rig testing, including instrumentation, being in the cell, and correlating prediction against measurement afterward
Disposition real hardware: evaluate non-conformances and support redesign on parts that are already built
Build the tools and automation the discipline depends on, and improve the analysis standards the team works to