Senior Combustion Devices Engineer: Space Propulsion

Rocket Lab Corporation; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 212,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Stock purchase plan

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA seeks a Principal Combustion Devices Engineer to own design, analysis, manufacturing support and flight qualification for propulsion components used on the Archimedes engine. You’ll guide cross-functional teams to ensure robust performance across tests and flights.

You will collaborate with turbomachinery and engine systems to enable fast iteration, manufacturability, and high cadence testing, while contributing to a reusable propulsion strategy with strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent.
• 12+ years of combustion device design experience.
• In-depth knowledge of combustion and fluid dynamics, heat transfer and structural mechanics.
• Fundamental understanding of design principals and manufacturing methods.

Responsibilities

• Design, analyze, and perform trades studies to achieve programmatic targets.
• Define requirements, test and flight qualification plans.
• Work with the interface owners, like turbomachinery and engine systems teams, to make a high-end product that could be iterated fast and seamlessly.
• Work with manufacturing and build engineers to design easily manufacturable, cost-effective, beautiful parts.
• Work with the test and launch teams to interpret data and provide solutions to enable a high cadence – of tests, flights and re-flights.

Skills

Combustion device design experience

Heat transfer & fluid dynamics

Structural mechanics

Manufacturing methods understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent

Tools

NX

ANSYS Mechanical

StarCCM

MATLAB

GD&T

Job description

Rocket Lab in Long Beach, CA seeks a Principal Combustion Devices Engineer to own design, analysis, manufacturing support and flight qualification for propulsion components used on the Archimedes engine. You’ll guide cross-functional teams to ensure robust performance across tests and flights.

You will collaborate with turbomachinery and engine systems to enable fast iteration, manufacturability, and high cadence testing, while contributing to a reusable propulsion strategy with strong