Lead Turbomachinery Engineer: Rotor Dynamics & Hot Section

Drove Aeropower; Cumming (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Drove Aeropower is seeking a senior turbomachinery engineer to own hardware for turbines, rotors, and hot-section components. You will define tests, conduct root-cause investigations, and collaborate with manufacturing and suppliers to deliver scalable, inspectable parts.

The role requires hands-on design experience across blades, disks, shafts, bearings, and coatings, with a focus on life prediction and failure analysis. Join a fast-moving team building advanced gas turbine systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• ~10+ years in gas turbine, jet engine, turbomachinery, or high-speed rotating machinery development.
• Strong turbine hot-section experience with hands-on design of blades, vanes, disks, shafts, or bearings.
• Command of turbine aerodynamics, heat transfer, solid mechanics, rotor dynamics, and mechanical design.
• Experience with high-temperature materials, coatings, and turbomachinery manufacturing processes, plus creep, fatigue, fracture, vibration, burst, overspeed, and life prediction.
• Full hardware cycles behind you, from design through test, failure investigation, redesign, and production

Responsibilities

• Define instrumentation and test requirements, run spin tests, overspeed tests, component rigs, and full-system validation, and correlate analytical models with real hardware performance.
• Lead root-cause investigations (vibration, thermal distress, bearings, cracking, wear, imbalance) and drive corrective action through redesign and re-test.
• Design with manufacturing and suppliers for parts that are producible, inspectable, and scalable across machining, casting, additive manufacturing, coatings, and balancing.
• Manage critical turbomachinery suppliers, and transition prototype hardware into controlled production designs with drawings, specifications, inspection criteria, and manufacturing controls.
• Spot system-level risks early and drive them to closure. Turbomachinery is never an isolated discipline here.

Skills

Turbomachinery design

Rotor dynamics

High-temperature materials

Vibration analysis

Mechanical design

Root-cause investigations

Education

Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering

Job description

Drove Aeropower is seeking a senior turbomachinery engineer to own hardware for turbines, rotors, and hot-section components. You will define tests, conduct root-cause investigations, and collaborate with manufacturing and suppliers to deliver scalable, inspectable parts.

The role requires hands-on design experience across blades, disks, shafts, bearings, and coatings, with a focus on life prediction and failure analysis. Join a fast-moving team building advanced gas turbine systems.