Senior Propulsion Certification Engineer
Full Time $140,000 - $195,000 / yearJob Overview
As a Senior Propulsion Certification Engineer, you will work directly with propulsion engineering and mission management teams to support critical flight systems certification activities. The certification team is responsible for ensuring that Impulse builds the processes and systems the government customer will review to evaluate Impulse’s mission readiness.
Responsibilities
- Develop systems to document Impulse / customer interactions and feedback, and track customer approval and acceptance
- Work with propulsion engineering team to build and optimize engineering process flows for customer deliverables
- Analyze government and commercial customer requirements and standards to determine compatibility with Impulse product lines
- Perform specialized analysis in support of verification activities; lead or participate in tests and demonstrations in support of requirement verification, including joint testing with customers
- Interact directly with customers to describe propulsion devices and their function, answer customer technical questions independently
- Support launch and mission operations, as required
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering or science
- 5+ years of demonstrated experience in the aerospace propulsion field
- Prior experience working directly on liquid propulsion systems: design, manufacturing, analysis, and testing.
- Proficiency in basic principles of fluids, thermodynamics, heat transfer, mechanics and materials
- Demonstrated ability of taking project ownership and working collaboratively