Propulsion Engineer, Propulsion Simulation & Data Analysis

What you'll do

• Maintain and improve the accuracy of the Raptor engine's lumped-parameter thermofluid physics model.
• Conduct engine cycle analysis to guide future design decisions and thrust upgrades.
• Resolve technical anomalies using engine models and sparse instrumentation data.
• Improve the representation of the engine for integrated vehicle simulations and flight Monte Carlo analysis.
• Develop tools and portals to identify sources of performance variability in manufacturing and hardware.
• Automate software tools to predict test performance and generate flight predictions for guidance, navigation, and control systems.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline.
• 1+ year experience with physics-based simulations of real dynamic systems.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee (or eligible for such status).
• Experience with dynamical systems modeling and lumped parameter modeling of physical systems (preferred).
• Experience implementing physics-informed neural networks to solve engineering problems (preferred).
• Proficiency in compressible/incompressible flow, thermodynamics, thermochemistry, mechanics, and materials (preferred).
• Experience building data pipelines for high dimensional datasets and full stack web development (preferred).
• 1+ year experience writing computer software (preferred).