Senior Propulsion Components Engineer

Our Electron rocket has become the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually and has delivered more than 230 satellites to orbit, all while we work to develop Neutron, our upcoming medium-lift, reusable launch vehicle for larger constellation deployment. Our Space Systems business designs and builds our e...

The Space Systems Propulsion team is responsible for developing and delivering qualified, flight-ready space vehicle propulsion systems. The team takes on cradle-to-grave ownership of systems and components. From mission requirement through detailed design, qualification, integration, and on orbit operation. Example...

The team consists of development engineers and development technicians with a range of experience and skillsets, spanning systems engineering, design, build, test, and operations. The common thread across all members of the team is end-to-end ownership and the ability to work hands-on with development, qualification...

Owning development of new or existing products or systems, acting as technical lead to guide team through end-to-end development process.
Conceptual and detailed designs in CAD for propulsion system components as well as calculations, analysis, and system designs.
Prototyping and development testing your designs as well as supporting procurement and production of hardware for development and production. Your work will be on flight hardware and the tooling and test rigs required to develop and qualify them.
Review and approval of others’ drawings, 3D PMI, reports, and specifications.
General systems engineering tasks including requirements gathering and definition as well as communicating with internal and external project stakeholders
Project management including schedule building and maintenance, identifying risk and priority, and providing tasking to others on the project
Mentorship and coaching of people within the team on technical and professional

A genuine passion for engineering, curious mindset, and willingness to learn.
An engineering degree and 5+ years of experience in propulsion development, or equivalent high-performance field.
Background working with fluid system components such as valves and regulators.
Experience with end-to-end development process including gathering requirements, detailed design, qualification, production, and acceptance testing.
Detailed mechanical design experience using NX (preferred) or equivalent industry standard CAD software and PLM such as Teamcenter.
Hands on engineering skills, inside or outside the workplace.
Desire to take accountability for design reviews and approving release of production parts.
Comfortable working with high levels of ambiguity; making decisions using basic engineering principles, available information, and risk. 
Project leadership experience; identifying the necessary steps to achieve high level technical goals, scheduling them in a plan, and managing delivery against that plan.
Test engineering experience such as writing test plans, instrumentation, performing testing, test data analysis, and writing test reports.
Capabilities using Python for data manipulation and post-processing.
Masters or Doctorate Degree

Citizenship of AU / NZ / EU / NATO