Staff Engineer - Fluid Systems

Job Description Summary At GE Aerospace, we invent the future of flight, lift people up and bring them home safely. Located in Bohemia, Long Island, New York, and Rockledge, Florida, GE Aerospace’s Hypersonics Center of Excellence builds on GE’s 125+ years of industrial research heritage coupled with Innoveering’s legacy of high-speed air-breathing propulsion system development, tackling the most challenging engineering problems through multi-disciplinary teams to deliver innovative technologies.

Together, we create and sustain differentiated solutions to maintain competitive advantages for GE Aerospace and our customers.

GE Aerospace is seeking a Staff Fluid Systems Design Engineer to support the research and development of fluid delivery systems for hypersonic air-breathing propulsion and vehicle systems. In this role, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team to design, analyze, test, and mature fluid system technologies that support the development of flight-ready hardware. The ideal candidate has a solid foundation in engineering principles, strong analytical and test capability, and the ability to contribute effectively in a collaborative technical environment.

This role offers the opportunity to support advanced propulsion applications through computational analysis, hardware validation, and cross-functional problem solving.

• Designing, testing, and implementing fluid delivery systems in support of high-speed engines, most notably hot fuel delivery systems.
• Serves as best practice/quality resource.
• Has awareness of latest technical developments in own area.
• Contributes towards strategy and policy development, and ensure delivery within area of responsibility.
• Has in-depth knowledge of best practices and how own area integrates with others; has working knowledge of competition and the factors that differentiate them in the market
• Uses judgment to make decisions or solve moderately complex tasks or problems in areas of operational/product management, manufacturing, technology or engineering.
• Takes new perspective on existing solutions.
• Uses technical experience and expertise for data analysis to support recommendations.
• Uses multiple internal and limited external sources outside of own function to arrive at decisions.
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience.
• May lead small projects with moderate risks and resource requirements.
• Explains difficult or sensitive information; works to build consensus.
• Developing persuasion skills required to influence others on topics within field.
• Leads in the development and implementation of Standard Work practices in support of fluid system design, development and testing

Master’s degree from an accredited university or college in Mechanical Engineering or a related discipline 15+ years of experience in aerospace fuel/fluid system engineering, including requirements, interfaces, component definition, design and test Experience with fluid system modeling (steady-state and transient) and using test data to calibrate/validate models. Demonstrated capability leading and mentoring cross-functional execution with strong technical communication and ownership. Skilled with Microsoft Office Suite, specifically Excel and PowerPoint.

This position requires U.S. citizenship status. Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance Be willing to work out of an office located in Bohemia, NY or Rockledge, FL Desired Characteristics Experience with static and dynamic testing of fluid system components for ground and flight-test hardware, with an emphasis on hot fuels testing. Experience with air-breathing hypersonic propulsion (ramjet/scramjet) or related high-speed propulsion…