Technical Owner - Fluid Components

The role

You will own the technical follow-up of suppliers providing Nyx Earth fluid-control equipment. This includes managing the technical baseline, supplier development, qualification, and integration support.

What you will do

• Own the assigned fluidic-component technical baseline including requirements, interfaces, and verification methods.
• Maintain a system-level view of fluidic, mechanical, thermal, electrical, command, cleanliness, materials-compatibility, safety, operations, and integration interfaces.
• Follow supplier development, qualification, acceptance, integration, and operations-support logic.
• Keep the technical position clear when following suppliers, manufacturing partners, special processes, or test houses.
• Review supplier deliverables, drawings, analyses, procedures, inspection evidence, test results, and non-conformance inputs.
• Make leakage, response, cleanliness, compatibility, lifetime, production repeatability, evidence gaps, delivery risks, and recovery options visible early.
• Support MAIT/AIT preparation, integration, test procedures, acceptance evidence, and flight-operations preparation.

Required qualifications

• Strong aerospace, mechanical, propulsion, fluids, or related engineering background.
• Experience with spacecraft propulsion fluidic components such as valves, regulators, fill/drain equipment, pressure-control equipment, or related fluid-control hardware.
• Practical understanding of requirements, verification, cleanliness, materials compatibility, leakage, actuation, testing, qualification, manufacturing support, and failure modes.
• Ability to own technical supplier follow-up for complex hardware across requirements, interfaces, qualification, delivery, integration, and anomaly support.
• Strong communication with propulsion, procurement, quality, MAIT/AIT, test, program, suppliers, manufacturing partners, and operations stakeholders.
• Fluency in English

Nice to have

• French and/or German are useful assets

Benefits

• Relocation assistance is provided for those willing to relocate including visa sponsorship where applicable

Before you apply

• All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
• The Exploration Company partners with Zinc Work Limited to ensure the process is efficient and transparent.

About the company

The Exploration Company is building spacecraft for humanity.