At Blue Origin, we envision millions of people living and working in space for the benefit of Earth. We're working to develop reusable, safe, and low-cost space vehicles and systems within a culture of safety, collaboration, and inclusion. Join our diverse team of problem solvers as we add new chapters to the history of spaceflight!
Come innovate at Blue!
Blue Origin is a rapidly expanding company with a singular focus on fulfilling our vision of millions of people living and working in space. The company celebrates strong collaboration, outstanding and innovative solutions, and passion for success. Blue Origin is searching for open-minded, high-judgement, enthusiastic candidates looking to join our diverse, team-based environment.
Blue Origin's Engineering & Program Management Flight Sciences group is looking for a talented Aerodynamics Engineer, entry to mid-level, to support the New Shepard, New Glenn, Space Systems Development, Engines, and Lunar Transport Programs.
As part of a diverse and hardworking team of specialists, you will be supporting aspects of aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic design across all flight regimes for current and future spaceflight systems. This position will require your dedication and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable spaceflight and will directly craft the future of space exploration!
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities for this role will include supporting the development of airframe and Outer Mold Line (OML) design and configuration, developing tools and tool chains to automated CFD and Wind Tunnel test analyses, developing ascent and descent aerodynamic/aero-thermal databases.
This role will require performing both internal and external fluid CFD analyses to include multi-phase, and multi-species.
This team member will also support/Conduct subsonic-to-hypersonic CFD analyses and Wind Tunnel testing, perform DSMC analyses on space vehicles/platforms, and conduct aerodynamic analyses from 1st order principles to high fidelity CFD.
Finally they will be involved in all aspects of the entire program lifecycle: from early conceptual design and configuration through flight operations and sustaining engineering.
Minimum Qualifications:
Minimum of BS degree in Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering
4+ years of experience with air vehicle aerodynamics, aerothermodynamics, or flight mechanics
Proven experience in the development of aerodynamic and/or aero-thermal dynamic analyses/databases
Proven experience with CFD tools including CAD model cleanup, mesh generation, and solution post-processing
Strong programming skills in both Python and MATLAB
Efficient working within both Windows and Linux/Unix environments
Demonstrated effective communication of aerodynamic knowledge and impacts to other subsystems and product objectives
Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired:
MS or higher degree in Aeronautical/Aerospace Engineering
Knowledge of aerodynamic fundamentals and intuition through multiple flight regimes (subsonic, transonic, hypersonic, continuous, and free molecular flow DSMC)
Experience in aerodynamic tool development and integration with optimization/analysis toolchains
Experience with buffeting/aero-acoustics analyses
Experience with running steady-state and unsteady CFD
Preferred experience with CFD/DSMC solvers: ICFD, DAC, FLOW3D, CBAERO, LAURA
Preferred experience with pre/post processing tools: Pointwise, Ensight, ParaView, Tecplot
Experience supporting wind tunnel testing and, flight testing including data reduction and post-flight data analysis
Experience with vehicle aerothermodynamic environments through all phases of flight (launch, exo-atmospheric, re-entry, landing and recovery)
Experience developing and maintaining databases for use in tr
