Engineer: Design, Analysis & Test

About Us

We are a small, fast-moving team building next-generation gas turbine engines to power the future of aerospace, defense, and energy. Backed by leading investors and led by proven founders, we're assembling a high-performance team to reinvent propulsion and power from the ground up. This is a rare chance to create genuinely new technology and to watch it go from a sketch on your screen to hardware coming off the line and into service.

We design it, analyze it, build it, and test it, often in the same week.

This is a single, deliberately broad opening. We are hiring engineers who can move fluidly across the design, build, test, and manufacturing loop. Rather than slotting you into a narrow specialty, we want to understand where you are strongest and where you want to grow. With fewer than a dozen people on the team, every engineer owns real hardware end to end and sees their work run on a test stand, not just live in a model.

We are actively hiring across three core areas of expertise. Strong candidates anchor in one and contribute meaningfully in the others:

• Combustion & Fluids: Combustor and fuel-system design, fuel atomization and mixing, ignition and relight behavior, internal and secondary flows, convective and radiative heat transfer, and the thermal-fluid trades that set component performance.

• Analysis: Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), thermal and structural finite-element analysis (FEA), and system- or cycle-level modeling — building the predictive models that drive design decisions and connecting them back to test data.

• Detailed Design: Translating concepts into manufacturable hardware: component and assembly modeling, tolerance stack-ups, GD&T, design for manufacturability, and release‑ready drawing and specification packages.

You don’t need to check every box across all three areas — depth in one, paired with curiosity and competence in the others, is exactly what we’re after.

• Own components and systems from concept through detailed design, analysis, build, and test.

• Build and run the analysis (CFD, thermal/structural FEA, or system-level models) that guides design decisions, and defend your assumptions.

• Produce manufacturing-ready outputs — drawing packages, GD&T, tolerance stack-ups, and specifications that the shop and our suppliers can build from.

• Get hands‑on in the shop and on the test stand: assemble hardware, instrument it, run tests, and reduce the data yourself.

• Close the loop between prediction and measurement — iterate quickly and feed test results back into the next design.

• Wear multiple hats. Collaborate across disciplines and pick up whatever the program needs, because in a team this small the boundaries between roles are intentionally loose.

• B.S. or M.S. in mechanical, aerospace, or a closely related engineering discipline — or equivalent hands‑on experience.

• Strong command of the fundamentals: thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and mechanics of materials.

• Proficiency with Solid Works for CAD and ANSYS for analysis (or directly comparable tools), with depth in at least one analysis domain — CFD, FEA, or system/cycle modeling.

• Genuinely hands‑on — comfortable building, instrumenting, and testing real hardware.

• A bias for action, ownership, and comfort with ambiguity in an early‑stage environment.

• Clear technical communication and the instinct to back claims with data rather than assertion.

• Fluent with modern AI tools and able to use them to move faster — while staying appropriately skeptical: you verify what they produce, understand where they break down, and never let them substitute for your own engineering judgment.

• Turbo machinery, rotating machinery, or propulsion‑system experience.

• Combustion, fuel systems, atomization, or reacting‑flow modeling.

• Rotor dynamics, structural dynamics, vibration, or fatigue/life analysis.

• High‑temp materials and processes — casting, brazing, additive, and precision machining.

• Test‑stand design, data acquisition, and instrumentation.

• Design for manufacturability of precision machined and cast components; GD&T

• Scripting and automation (e.g., Python) for…