Equity + Impact: Turbomachinery Secondary Flow Engineer

Valar Atomics; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership in a rapidly growing,

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch and dinner onsite

Generous PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment with a

Rapid career growth

Direct collaboration with experienced

Build and scale transformative energy

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a secondary flowengineer to join the turbomachinery team and advance power generation capability. You’ll be responsible for the definition of the secondary flow path and will directly influence system architecture as an early hire.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teammates to deliver a manufacturable, high‑efficiency design and own seal-related decisions from concept through procurement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• Experience analyzing secondary flow systems from either a systems perspective or from a seal design perspective.
• Experience with rotating seal design or seal procurement.

Responsibilities

• Responsible engineer for secondary flow passages
• Own procurement or manufacture of seals
• Conduct trade studies of seal configurations and drive actionable architecture decisions from them

Skills

Secondary flow analysis

Rotating seal design

Seal procurement

Thermodynamic cycle analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

AxStream

Concepts NREC

Dyrobes

Job description

Valar Atomics is seeking a secondary flowengineer to join the turbomachinery team and advance power generation capability. You’ll be responsible for the definition of the secondary flow path and will directly influence system architecture as an early hire.

You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teammates to deliver a manufacturable, high‑efficiency design and own seal-related decisions from concept through procurement.