Turbomachinery Engineer II / Senior Turbomachinery Engineer I/II

The role

This role is responsible for the design and development of turbomachinery hardware for the Archimedes engine. You will provide full life cycle ownership of clean sheet turbopump design and support the Neutron and Archimedes teams.

What you will do

• Responsible engineer of significant turbomachinery components/systems
• Drive design, manufacturing, testing, and flight to meet cost, life, reusability, and reliability milestones
• Design and analyze rotating and stationary turbomachinery components in the Archimedes turbomachinery
• Perform hydrodynamics, mechanical, secondary systems, and integrated analysis
• Next-generation flowpath design and benchmarking of existing designs
• Drive pump head and suction performance improvements
• Support manufacturing of turbomachinery components
• Support component level and engine level testing
• Ensure testing satisfies certification requirements
• Support flight campaign preparations, flight operations, flight data and hardware review, and reuse campaigns

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a mechanical or aerospacen engineering or discipline or equivalent
• 2+ years of turbomachinery design experience (for Level II)
• 5+ years of turbomachinery design experience (for Senior I)
• 8+ years of turbomachinery design experience (for Senior II)
• Experience with commercial design and analysis software
• Fundamental understanding of mechanical design and fluid dynamics principles

Nice to have

• Proficiency in GD&T
• Professional experience with NX, Ansys & BladeGen, StarCCM
• Rocket turbomachinery experience and flowpath design
• Experience with compressible flows, cryogenic and real-gas fluids
• Experience with best practices for design, qualification and production
• Experience with a scrappy development environment

Benefits

• top tier medical HMO, PPO & a 100% company-sponsored medical HSA plan option
• dental and vision coverage
• 3 weeks paid vacation
• 5 days sick leave per year
• 11 paid holidays per year
• flexible spending and dependent care savings accounts
• paid parental leave
• disability insurance
• life insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Discounted employee stock purchase program
• subsidized EV charging stations, onsite gym, food and drinks

Before you apply

• Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful U.S. permanent resident, or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of
• For New Zealand offices, background checks including nationality checks will be undertaken

About the company

Rocket Lab is the end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems. The Neutron team is responsible for bringing the new large rocket Neutron and its launch and test sites to life.