Airfoils- Engineer

Airfoils-Staff Responsible Engineer

Location:

San Francisco/Hybrid
Job Type: Contractor full-time, convertible to salaried full-time.
Pay range: $143,000/yr ($68.75/hr)

Shift: 1st Shift

Start Date:

ASAP

• Own end-to-end requirements development, design, analysis, test, qualification, and lifecycle management.
• Perform hand calculations and straightforward FEA / CFD tasks.
• Take sole ownership of hardware development from clean-sheet through high-rate production across multiple components of the Parallax PE-10.
• Collaborate with other responsible engineers to define interface requirements and manage coupled interactions.
• Collaborate with analysts to derive loads, environments, and response characteristics of hardware across its operating envelope.
• Develop and execute test and qualification plans for hardware.
• Analyze test and qualification data to derive margins and iterate on designs.
• Collaborate with production to develop and execute prototype, low-rate, and full-rate production while balancing performance, cost, and complexity.
• Flex across multiple disciplines and scopes as necessary.

Owns the aerodynamic design of axial-compressor and turbine airfoils across the engine: transonic, mid- and final-stage compressor blades & vanes; compressor-turbine (CT) and power-turbine (PT) blades & vanes; and PT / mid-turbine-frame flowpath. Two scopes – transonic compressor blades and power-turbine blades – are Staff-RE leads. Crossover is encouraged: compressor turbine aero, aeroaeromechanics, aerosecondary-air.

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• Master's or PhD preferred (a turbo machinery PhD can substitute for some experience).

• 4-8 years of turbo machinery aerodynamic design or a turbo machinery PhD plus ~2 years.
• 3+ years of blade/vane aerodynamic design from 1D meanline through 3D CFD.
• Rig and/or engine test experience (instrumentation, data reduction, correlation).
• Aeromechanics / aeroelasticity exposure desirable.

• Axial compressor and/or turbine aerodynamic design (1D / 2D / 3D).
• CFD and numerical methods; loss, secondary-flow and tip-clearance modeling.
• Blade/vane parameterization and design optimization.
• Python and/or MATLAB; 2D/3D CAD (Solid Works, CATIA, NX/ProE, etc.).

Belcan is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.