Senior Aerospace Materials & Processes Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; El Segundo (CA); In loco; USD 140.000 - 203.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is seeking a Senior Materials and Process Engineer in El Segundo, CA to define and qualify materials and special processes for our reentry vehicles.

You will own process qualification records, control plans, and lead RCCAs, MRB, and failure investigations, applying statistical methods to set process windows and acceptance criteria. You will collaborate with design engineers, technicians, and suppliers to improve quality and repeatability across flight hardware while

Competenze

• Bachelor's degree in Materials Science, Metallurgical, Chemical, Mechanical, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of process and materials engineering in aerospace or high-reliability industry.
• Experience developing and qualifying processes for flight or safety-critical hardware.
• Experience authoring specifications, design guidance, and acceptance criteria.

Mansioni

• Develop, qualify, and maintain special processes for flight hardware (ablative and TPS, coatings, polymers, composites, adhesives).
• Develop and control wet chemical processes (cleaning, etching, passivation).
• Implement corrosion prevention and control practices and assess material compatibility.
• Design experiments and pathfinder hardware to de-risk processes and characterize materials.
• Define tooling, fixture, test equipment, cleanliness, contamination control, and material handling requirements.
• Lead RCCAs, MRB, and failure investigations for material/process non-conformances.

Conoscenze

Technical leadership

Statistical methods

Process control

Technical writing

Formazione

BS in Materials Science

MS/PhD preferred

Strumenti

XRD

SEM/EDS

NDE

DOE

Descrizione del lavoro

Varda Space Industries, Inc. is seeking a Senior Materials and Process Engineer in El Segundo, CA to define and qualify materials and special processes for our reentry vehicles.

You will own process qualification records, control plans, and lead RCCAs, MRB, and failure investigations, applying statistical methods to set process windows and acceptance criteria. You will collaborate with design engineers, technicians, and suppliers to improve quality and repeatability across flight hardware while