Full-Time
Propulsion Engineer
Turbomachinery
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Develops 100% reusable rockets, studies Earth from orbit
Aerospace
Senior
Kent, WA, USA
Required Skills
CAD
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in design, build, and testing of rocket engine turbopumps or related turbomachinery experience
- Understanding of hydrodynamic/aerodynamic design and fundamentals of turbomachinery
- Extensive experience using CAD tools and configuration management (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred)
- Experience with mechanical design including machined parts, additive parts, weldments, fasteners, seals, and rotating assemblies
- Experience in rocket engine turbomachinery axial/radial tolerance stackups, and material selection
- Experience in the design, build, and testing of inducers, impellers, volutes, turbines, nozzles, shafts, bearings, and seals
- Experience with secondary flow and axial thrust balance modeling
- Proficiency in heat transfer, compressible and incompressible flow, and cryogenics
- Ability to lead
- Ability to follow
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering, or similar
- Willing to relocate to Seattle, WA
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and test turbopumps for liquid rocket engines
- Perform hydrodynamic and aerodynamic sizing and flowpath design and analysis work for inducers, impellers, diffusers, nozzles, turbines, and other turbomachinery
- Perform hydrostatic bearing sizing, performance trending, and coatings development for turbopump bearings
- Own test verification activities to ensure accomplished tests meet requirements
- Support turbopump testing, data review, inspections, and go/no-go's
- Own performance trending of various components (inducers, impellers, turbines, axial/ radial bearing capacities, cavitation, etc)
- Own design improvement plans for turbopump components including manufacturing improvements to reduce cost and lead time
- Develop high-speed data tools to review for turbopump vibration and rotordynamics performance
- Resolve hardware build non-conformances thru resolution
- Conduct fault tree investigations and root cause analysis
Stoke Space is focused on creating 100% reusable rockets to expand access to orbit and leverage satellite data for NASA missions like SWOT, MAIA, NISAR, and GLIMR. Their operations aim to significantly enhance our understanding of Earth’s environmental changes by using advanced and sustainable space technologies.
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$313.9M
Headquarters
Seattle, Washington
Founded
2019
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