Turbomachinery Technical Architect (Lead Role)

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation provided

Travel up to 25%

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking a senior turbomachinery engineer to act as the technical authority across concept to production. You will own the development roadmap, define performance baselines, and establish rigorous design processes for turbomachinery products.

Collaboration with the Branch Lead and systems engineers will ensure alignment with vehicle performance and operability. You will lead analyses across meanline design, CFD, rotordynamics, and margins to ensure safe, reliable performance.

Qualifications

• MS in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering, emphasis on turbomachinery, fluid mechanics, or thermodynamics.
• 10+ years in turbomachinery design and analysis for aerospace propulsion systems.
• 5+ years with technical decision-making authority over multi-discipline turbomachinery development.
• Ability to perform/critically evaluate analyses across meanline aerodynamic design, CFD, secondary flow/seal modeling, structural analysis, dynamic loading, rotordynamics.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical authority for turbomachinery products from concept through qualification and production.
• Own the turbomachinery technical development roadmap and define the sequence of analyses and decisions.
• Establish design guidelines, KDPs, and margin requirements for each discipline.
• Define analysis methods, validation rigor, and documentation expectations for each lifecycle phase.
• Adjudicate turbomachinery architecture trades and interface with system performance.
• Mentor engineers in turbomachinery fundamentals and design standards.
• Support hardware build, testing, and anomaly investigation; provide dispositions for non-conforming hardware.
• Develop and maintain design requirements and documentation for gated reviews.

Skills

Technical leadership

Turbomachinery design

CFD

Rotordynamics

Python scripting

Education

MS in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

ANSYS

Python scripting

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking a senior turbomachinery engineer to act as the technical authority across concept to production. You will own the development roadmap, define performance baselines, and establish rigorous design processes for turbomachinery products.

Collaboration with the Branch Lead and systems engineers will ensure alignment with vehicle performance and operability. You will lead analyses across meanline design, CFD, rotordynamics, and margins to ensure safe, reliable performance.