Senior Propulsion Engineer (Components Team)

About the role

Venus Aerospace develops rocket engine propulsion, including its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine and Detonation Ramjets. As a Senior Propulsion Engineer on the components team, you will help take propulsion hardware designs from various readiness levels to flight-ready parts. The role covers Propellant & Pressure Management (PPMS) systems, and suits a self-starter comfortable in a fast-paced environment.

Key responsibilities

• Support design, analysis, manufacturing and testing of propulsion parts and assemblies
• Generate CAD models of components and test systems
• Test off-the-shelf and custom hardware, and support larger system and engine tests
• Develop and run test plans, analyse test results, and generate P&ID drawings of test stands
• Design and analyse engine fluid systems, identify COTS components and work with suppliers to source them
• Validate and verify component requirements through systems engineering
• Break down complex projects into daily and weekly tasks using agile methodology
• Work with PPMS, engine and vehicle engineering and test teams, and with outside vendors and the procurement team to source components

Required profile

• Multi-disciplinary engineer with 5+ years of aerospace vehicle and component design and testing experience
• Bachelor's degree in aerospace or mechanical engineering
• 3+ years of CAD experience
• Systems engineering and hands-on operational experience, and experience on multidisciplinary project teams
• Knowledge of aerospace materials and fluid system component specifications
• Strong communication skills

Required skills

• CAD modelling and drawing
• Design for manufacturing (DFM)
• Tools such as NX / SolidWorks, ANSYS Mechanical, CFX / StarCCM+, MATLAB / Python, GFSSP, Microsoft Visio
• Nice to have: Master's degree, RDRE or RDE experience, project management, Agile familiarity, SMC-S-016 and AIAA S-080A-2018 standards knowledge, process standardization experience