Lead, Vehicle Fluids Integrated Design
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Job Description
About the Team:
The Stage Fluids team designs and delivers the propellant, pressurant, pneumatics, and other fluid systems that turn structures into functioning rockets. The team has full ownership across design, production, test, and flight, maintaining a holistic view of Terran R, focused not on isolated parts but integrated functionality. Working on-site at the factory means you're never far from the hardware, enabling rapid iteration and tight feedback loops across design and manufacturing. You won't just be handed requirements: you'll be expected to ask the right questions, collaborate with partners across the company, and ultimately find the best solutions for Terran R.
About the Role:
As lead, you will lead a small team of vehicle fluid hardware engineers. Your scope will be focused on hardware ownership throughout the evolution of the program. Packaging, detailed design of large numbers of parts, broad design process improvement and implementation, hardware integration support and supporting vehicle hardware as it moves with the vehicle will all fall within your responsibility. Designs and packaging trades will be informed by both fluid and structural analytical and computational models. You will own the long-term iteration/trajectory of the vehicle fluids hardware and iterate to reduce the cost, complexity and weight of TerranR fluids. You and your team will need to operate on tight timelines, on a scope spanning 1000s of parts while clarifying ambiguity and improving organization.
About You:
- Bachelor's degree in science, engineering, technology, or mathematics field
- 3+ years of experience with fluid systems design and/or structural design
- Experience in mentoring and demonstrated leadership skills
- Experience with computer-aided design software
- Experience with Finite Element analysis (FEA) and commercial tools
- Fundamental understanding of fluid, structural, and mechanical design fundamentals
- Ability to drive to deliver on ambitious schedules
Nice to haves but not required:
- Experience leading teams
- Experience in the design and analysis of fluid components and systems
- Experience with Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and ANSYS specifically
- Experience with large CAD model management, change management and configuration management
- Experience supporting hardware build execution
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