Chemical Propulsion Engineer II: Flight Systems & Analysis

Jet Propulsion Laboratory; United States; On-site; USD 119,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision plans

Paid time off

Flexible schedule

Job summary

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California seeks a Level II Propulsion Systems Engineer to join the Thermal, Propulsion, and Materials Engineering Section, performing propulsion analyses, updating tools, and supporting ground tests for spacecraft propulsion systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and rocket propulsion, with ability to communicate results to multi-disciplinary teams and work both collaboratively and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering or related technical discipline with a minimum of 3 years of related experience; Master’s degree with a minimum of 1 year related experience.
• Strong fundamentals in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, and rocket propulsion principles for propulsion systems.
• Experience with performing and generating tools/code for spacecraft propulsion related subsystem analyses, such as flow-pressure drop and test data reduction.
• Ability to perform first-order (hand calculation) and excel-level calculations.
• Capable of reporting and presenting complex analytical results clearly to multi-disciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with developing, supporting and conducting propulsion subsystem ground testing.
• Demonstrated creating and understanding fluid schematics and mechanical drawings.
• Ability to work as a member of a team and independently with limited supervision, when given only general instructions.

Responsibilities

• Perform various spacecraft chemical propulsion subsystem static and transient analyses, such as flow-pressure drop, system sizing, blowdown, and waterhammer.
• Update, optimize and improve existing analysis tools and system models.
• Generate documentation and user’s manuals for in-house created analysis tools and models.
• Develop and execute ground tests to validate and anchor analysis models, including analyzing and reducing the test data.
• Collaborate closely with the propulsion team to assist and provide analysis peer checks as well as providing systems design inputs.
• Prepare and communicate analysis methodology, assumptions, analytical and test result presentations to the team, the project and management.
• Support propulsion flight hardware deliveries and interface with external component vendors.
• Contribute and support propulsion system assembly, integration and test (I&T) activities.

Skills

Fluid mechanics

Thermodynamics

Heat and mass transfer

Rocket propulsion

Propulsion subsystem analysis

Data analysis with spreadsheets

MATLAB

Excel

Technical reporting

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering

Master’s degree

Tools

Star-CCM+

ANSYS

SINDA/FLUINT

GFSSP

Siemens NX

TeamCenter

PDM

MATLAB

Job description

Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California seeks a Level II Propulsion Systems Engineer to join the Thermal, Propulsion, and Materials Engineering Section, performing propulsion analyses, updating tools, and supporting ground tests for spacecraft propulsion systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong background in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and rocket propulsion, with ability to communicate results to multi-disciplinary teams and work both collaboratively and