Lead Propulsion Vessel Engineer for Space Station

Telemetry Today LLC; Long Beach (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Generous paid time off

Onsite meals and snacks

Paid time off

Job summary

Vast is seeking a Lead Propulsion Engineer in Long Beach to design, qualify, and own pressure vessels for Haven Station. You will set the technical approach, review releases, and actively lead a team through rapid cycles from concept to module end-of-life.

You will mentor engineers, own critical interfaces with Propulsion, ECLSS, and Structures, and drive qualification and fracture control for crewed flight while traveling to suppliers and test sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials science, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing, analyzing, or testing pressure vessels or composite structures for flight or other high consequence use.
• Experience carrying hardware from design through build and test.

Responsibilities

• Lead the pressure vessel team: set technical direction, review the work, and develop the responsible engineers and analysts under you.
• Serve as technical authority over the Haven Station COPV and metallic tank designs, reviewing and approving releases from the responsible engineers.
• Set the analysis and test approach for the team: composite layup analysis, stress and fracture, proof, burst, cycle, and stress rupture testing.
• Lead failure investigations on prototype and qualification hardware and carry the findings into the next design iteration.
• Own tank requirements and interfaces with Propulsion, ECLSS, and Structures.
• Support the responsible engineers with the liner supplier, the winder, and the metallic fabrication shops on specifications, deviations, inspection, and acceptance.
• Work with the matrixed manufacturing engineers on producibility, inspection methods, and a plan to bring winding in house.
• Write and defend the qualification and fracture control approach for crewed flight.

Skills

Pressure vessel design

Composite structures analysis

Engineering mentorship

Leadership

Composite manufacturing

Titanium tank fabrication

Type IV tanks

ANSYS

Abaqus

Femap/Nastran

Mentoring engineers

Hands-on manufacturing

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, materials science, or equivalent experience

Tools

Ansys

Abaqus

Femap/Nastran

WoundSim

Job description

Vast is seeking a Lead Propulsion Engineer in Long Beach to design, qualify, and own pressure vessels for Haven Station. You will set the technical approach, review releases, and actively lead a team through rapid cycles from concept to module end-of-life.

You will mentor engineers, own critical interfaces with Propulsion, ECLSS, and Structures, and drive qualification and fracture control for crewed flight while traveling to suppliers and test sites as needed.