Staff Engineer – Fuel Systems

About the role

We are seeking a highly motivated Staff Fuel System Engineer to support the design, development, integration, and fielding of a next‑generation autonomous aircraft system. This role balances technical rigor, rapid decision‑making, and hands‑on engineering to transition concepts into operational capability.

Key responsibilities

• Serve as the Responsible Engineer for the aircraft fuel system, owning requirements, architecture, interfaces, hardware, and technical decisions from concept through operational deployment.
• Design, size, and integrate fuel tanks, pumps, valves, plumbing, venting, pressurization, filtration, level sensing, and related hardware.
• Analyze fuel system performance across the aircraft operating envelope, including pressure, flow, transient engine demand, elevated‑G maneuvering, tank depletion, slosh, vapor pressure, cavitation, and thermal effects.
• Lead technical design reviews, supplier engagements, and hardware procurement while ensuring compliance with performance, mass, thermal, reliability, safety, and mission requirements.
• Plan and execute component, subsystem, and vehicle‑level testing, including instrumentation, procedures, data acquisition, performance validation, and flight readiness.
• Analyze ground and flight data to validate system performance, quantify margin, identify anomalies, and drive hardware or operational improvements.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 7+ years of experience in aerospace fuel systems, fluid systems, propulsion, or related aircraft system development with ownership of complex hardware.
• Strong understanding of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and compressible and incompressible flow.
• Hands‑on experience with fluid system hardware integration, instrumentation, testing, flight support, and technical failure investigations.
• U.S. citizenship and active security clearance.

Required skills

• Python for engineering analysis and data reduction.
• GFSSP.
• REFPROP.
• CFD.
• ANSYS.
• FEA.