Launch Fluid Systems Engineer - Hands-On Rocket Hardware

United States Digital Space LLC; Brownsville (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Launch Engineer, Fluid Systems, to design and build critical rocket fluid systems and oversee cross-functional projects in a demanding, development-focused environment. You will join a team tackling cryogenic and high-pressure challenges with rapid iteration and field testing.

The role demands hands-on hardware work, rigorous design reviews, and close collaboration with technicians to keep launches on schedule.

Qualifications

• 3+ years mechanical, fluids, or thermal design experience in an industrial setting.
• Bachelor’s degree in physics or engineering.
• Experience with high-pressure and cryogenic fluid systems and components.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, design, and build systems that support critical rocket launches and testing
• Cradle-to-grave project ownership through hosting design reviews, project decision justification, equipment procurement, and coordination and assistance of the construction of your ideas
• Design modular hardware capable of being manufactured at volume for future launch sites across the world
• Apply interdisciplinary engineering skills in fields of system-level process design and initial sizing, detailed pressurized fluid and thermal analysis, structural engineering, materials, and component selection, and cost/schedule optimization
• Work directly with technicians and support groups to build your designs, and fix real-world problems on the fly
• Maintain a tight feedback loop with the launch operations team to rapidly alter plans as necessary to meet tight deadlines
• Activate and troubleshoot equipment to achieve design objectives and iterate system maintenance strategies to reduce future downtimes
• Independently evaluate complex problems and arrive at solutions to seemingly impractical problems that best support the program
• Hands-on approach to tackling daily field projects necessary to keep the company launching rockets

Skills

Independent work

High-urgency environment

Problem solving

Interdisciplinary engineering

ASME piping design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in physics or engineering

Tools

NX CAD

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Launch Engineer, Fluid Systems, to design and build critical rocket fluid systems and oversee cross-functional projects in a demanding, development-focused environment. You will join a team tackling cryogenic and high-pressure challenges with rapid iteration and field testing.

The role demands hands-on hardware work, rigorous design reviews, and close collaboration with technicians to keep launches on schedule.