Two Roads Professional Resources, Inc.
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Propulsion Engineer
Mojave, CA 93501
Posted: 09/04/2020
2020-09-04
2021-01-04
Employment Type:
Direct
Industry: Engineering
Job Number: 81609
Job Description
The scope of the position includes:
- Provide engineering expertise in the area of design, development, and test of spacecraft propulsion systems
- Work across Client's programs, with a focus on the XL-1 lunar lander for the 2022 south pole mission. Other projects may include technology development and testing programs in support of the lunar mission.
- Provide mentorship and guidance to less experienced technical team members
Duties & Responsibilities covering one or multiple areas:
- Fluid Systems
- Development of fluid component specifications and sourcing of hardware
- Propellant budgets and DeltaV margin management
- Pressurization & propellant system design
- Fluid schematics and CAD
- Fabrication drawings and procedures
- Component testing procedures
- Propellant slosh modeling
- Priming and water hammer analysis
- RCS Thruster Designer
- Capable of bringing the RCS thruster from concept to qualification in 2 years
- Direct experience with vacuum testing
- High-temperature or refractory metal experience
- Injector design experience
- Film cooling experience
- Ground Support Equipment
- Hydrogen peroxide storage facility design
- Vacuum test stand design
- Lander flatsat fluid system design
- Ground support equipment for lander
○ Range compliance experience
○ Propellant transfer system design
○ Propellant storage
- Responsible for the procurement and fabrication of all test stand equipment
- Develop fabrication procedures and instructions
- Provide technical guidance to fabricators and other technicians
Job Requirements
Desired Skills/Experience:
- Innovative and open to helping create a Cislunar economy - passionate about space
- Understands what is needed for high-quality spaceflight systems - and also what is not needed.
- Experience with range safety
- Hypergolic engine in space engine design experience
- Hypergolic engine vacuum test experience
- Radiation cooled thrust chamber design and manufacturing
- Fluid system analysis
- Experience in the life cycle of spacecraft development: design, build, and test.
- 6+ years experience in aerospace engineering
- 3+ years in propulsion design and/or test for spacecraft or rockets
- Experience with startups or new space companies
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical field
- Excellent communications skills
- Strong work ethic and intrinsic motivation
- Hands-on fabrication experience
- Must be able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic highly technical environment
- Will have a large impact on many programs, especially the lunar mission
Professional Requirements
- Must be a “U.S. person” as defined by the ITAR (22 CFR §120.15)