Turbomachinery Tech Lead
Core
Technical authority for turbomachinery products, owning the development roadmap, design processes, and performance baselines for aerospace propulsion systems.
Role type
Senior IC turbomachinery technical lead
Builds
Reusable rocket engines and propulsion systems for commercial, civil, national security, and human spaceflight
Domain
Aerospace propulsion / Turbomachinery
Required skills
Turbomachinery design and analysis, CFD, meanline aerodynamic design, structural analysis, rotordynamics, Python scripting, design process establishment, system-level performance integration
Preferred skills
Rocket propulsion turbomachinery experience, additive manufacturing, non-traditional rotor support systems, transient operability analysis, parametric cost modeling, AI-assisted engineering tools
Technologies
ANSYS suite, Python, NASA GFSSP, Sinda/FLUINT
Responsibilities
Define turbomachinery design guidelines and key design parameters, adjudicate architecture trades, perform or direct multi-discipline analysis, establish performance baselines and margins, mentor engineers, support hardware build and anomaly investigation, represent the branch in program reviews
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with technical decision-making authority