Structures Design Engineer
About the role
Structures Design Engineer for an orbital vehicle program at Orbital Operations. Responsible for pressurized structures, thrust frames, and integrated fluid systems; acts as Responsible Engineer for major vehicle subsystems from requirements through flight, with hands-on hardware design, testing, and collaboration across disciplines.
Responsibilities
- Define the structural and major fluids design of the rocket in coordination with owners of other portions of the vehicle
- Procure and manage all hardware for components and structures that you own
- Work to get your hardware built, tested and integrated onto the vehicle
- Help build design tools and guidelines that will accelerate development of components
Qualifications
- 3+ years minimum experience in working in aerospace structures or fluids
- Designed, built and tested hardware
- Demonstrated proficiency with CAD software and analysis software (ANSYS preferred), should be able to talk to multiple examples of both
- Ability to determine appropriate level of work for a problem (from hand calcs to multi-physics finite element solutions) and execute the work accordingly
- Familiarity with launch vehicle design desired (cryogenic propellant familiarity preferred)
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
Skills
About Orbital Operations
High Thrust Space Vehicles for Satellite Defense
Orbital Operations is developing a high thrust, reusable space vehicle for satellite defense. We protect critical satellites, like GPS and Military communication satellites, from adversarial threats, like China and Russia. Our vehicle will use the exact same propulsion systems that launch vehicles have used for decades by implementing a cryogenic management system. This will give us over 100x the thrust or current in-space propulsion. Ross and I have over 15 years of combined aerospace experience across NASA, Aerojet Rocketdyne, SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Relativity Space. We’ve worked side by side for more than 3.5 years developing propulsion systems, turbomachinery, and building our own respective engineering teams. We are currently working on the first demo of our unique cryo management system and intend to launch an operational vehicle by 2027.
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