Senior Software 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 engine design and thrust upgrades.
• Perform anomaly resolution using the engine model and sparse instrumentation data.
• Update the Raptor engine representation for integrated vehicle simulations and flight Monte Carlo analysis.
• Develop tools and portals to identify performance variability and improve manufacturing and hardware design.
• Automate software tools to predict test performance and generate flight performance predictions for GNC and flight software.
• Standardize hardware and software practices to improve interoperability and minimize future technical overhead.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a STEM discipline.
• 5+ years of experience writing computer software.
• 5+ years of experience with physics-based simulations of real dynamic systems.
• Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, refugee, asylee, or eligible for Department of State authorization.
• Dynamical systems modeling (preferred).
• Experience with lumped parameter modeling of physical systems (preferred).
• Experience implementing physics-informed neural networks to solve real-world engineering problems (preferred).
• Experience with Python, C#/.NET, C++, or Java for backend development (preferred).