- Huntsville, Alabama, United States
- On-site
- Full-time · Mid
- 2+ years
Part of the Blue Origin Engines business unit, this role analyzes and optimizes turbomachinery and rotating hardware including pumps, turbines, compressors, shafts, disks, bearings, and seal assemblies to support design, test, and operation.
Responsibilities
- Perform thermal design and analysis of rotating and static turbomachinery components and assemblies (rotors, disks, shafts, housings, bearings, and seals) from concept through fabrication, testing, and into service
- Develop, maintain, and document analytical thermal models, including FEA, CFD and fluid networks, of individual turbomachinery components and full assemblies, supported by hand calculations
- Predict steady-state and transient thermal states of turbomachinery hardware across the operating envelope to support structural, clearance, and life assessments
- Support cooling and lubrication system design, including sizing of cooling and lubrication flows and evaluating component heat generation and heat rejection
- Anchor thermal predictions to component and system test data, identify discrepancies, and recommend model updates, and support test plan and instrumentation definition to verify thermal requirements
Requirements
- B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering
- B.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering
- related engineering discipline
- Nice to have: M.S. or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
- Nice to have: M.S. or Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering