- Dallas, Texas, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 7+ years
Lead the design, development, integration, and fielding of next-generation autonomous aircraft fuel systems.
Compensation
Full-time regular employee offer package: Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Serve as the Responsible Engineer for the aircraft fuel system, owning requirements, architecture, interfaces, hardware, and technical decisions from concept through operational deployment.
- Design, size, and integrate fuel tanks, pumps, valves, plumbing, venting and pressurization systems, filtration, level sensing, and associated fuel system hardware.
- Analyze fuel system performance across the aircraft operating envelope, including pressure and flow requirements, transient engine demand, elevated-G maneuvering, tank depletion, slosh, vapor pressure, cavitation, vapor ingestion, and thermal effects.
- Lead technical design reviews, supplier engagements, and hardware procurement while ensuring the fuel system meets performance, mass, thermal, reliability, safety, and mission requirements.
- Plan and execute component, subsystem, and vehicle-level testing, including instrumentation, procedures, data acquisition, performance validation, and flight readiness.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline
- Nice to have: high-performance aircraft