Liquid System Engineer III - Lunar Permanence

Position: Liquid System Responsible Engineer III - Lunar Permanence
Application close date:

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the requisition is closed.

At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!

This role is part of the Lunar Permanence business unit, which develops Blue Origin's Blue Moon landers and related products. To further Blue Origin's mission of millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth, we are building sustainable infrastructure for our transport of crew and cargo from Earth to the lunar surface.

We are looking for a cryogenic responsible engineer. Work will include the complete life cycle of the system from clean sheet conceptual definition, detailed design, development, assembly, verification, and operation. You will own your components from initial design to analyzing data from their landing on the moon! You will define requirements, design, and perform 1st order analyses to verify your designs.

You will work with suppliers or Blue Origin groups to identify and procure components. You will size, select material, and analyze these components for structural integrity due to pressure, vibration, fracture, fatigue, etc. You will create and manage the project plans for various hardware including cost and schedule. You will mentor early career engineers and perform technical peer reviews. Bring your technical expertise, leadership skills, and dedication to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight.

Passion for our mission and vision is required!

You will work directly with NASA and our National Team Partners as part of the Human Landing System (HLS) Sustaining Lunar Development (SLD) program. Playing a key role in developing the cryogenic systems that will return humans to the Moon and extend human presence permanently beyond the bounds of Earth.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

* Designing propellant management devices for human rated flight

* Performing fluid and structural analysis in support of your designs

* Coordinating design for manufacturability efforts for advanced fluid hardware

* Working with cross-functional teams to execute on your designs

Minimum Qualifications:

* B.S. degree in Mechanical, Aerospace, or related field

* 8+ years of experience designing cryogenic fluid components preferably in space industry

* Have experience in leading major technical trades like space vehicle architecture design, P&, major vehicle trade studies.

* Significant experience in design and analysis of complex micro-gravity hardware like PMD (Propellant Management Devices) or LAD (Liquid Acquisition Devices)

* Experience in using Surface Evolver, creating geometries, and analyzing them

* Expertise in design and verification of the cryogenics hardware by Test, writing Test plans, and executing test and evaluation of the test data

* Be able to create multiphase cryogenics tools in MATLAB/Python

* Serve as the technical mentor to other members, strong hands-on experience, and ability to coach the team through challenging technical problems

Preferred Qualifications:

* Expertise in thermal modeling tool SINDA/FLUINT or Thermal Desktop is preferred

* Previous technical lead experience is a plus.

* Experience in Propulsion Budget development of space vehicle going through mission timeline is a plus

* Experience with modeling propulsion/cryogenic fluids management (storage, transfer, phase change,…)

* Knowledge of other tools including MATLAB, Simulink, Amesim

* Successful candidates typically have 10 to 40+ years of relevant proven experience

* Active/passive Thermal/Pressure Control System/component design

* Advanced Engineering degree

* Experience with static and non-linear FEA analysis (ANSYS)

* Knowledge of ASME Y14.5 geometric dimensioning and tolerance

Compensation Range for:

CA applicants is $ - $
CO applicants is $ - $
WA applicants is $ - $

Other site ranges may differ

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