Staff Fuel Systems Engineer, Omen

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Lead technical efforts to define system requirements, develop architectures, evaluate trade studies, and establish methodologies for analyzing, verifying, and validating fluids systems.
• Perform system-level analysis including pressure drop, flow distribution, thermal balance, transient response, water hammer, slosh, two-phase flow, and CFD as needed to support design decisions.
• Work in close partnership with propulsion, structures, electrical, avionics, controls, and software teams to ensure fluids systems integrate cleanly into a reliable, flexible, cost-effective vehicle.
• Specify, source, and qualify fluids components including pumps, valves, actuators, accumulators, heat exchangers, lines, fittings, seals, filters, and tanks.
• Spearhead design reviews, conduct hands-on rig and aircraft-level testing, visit vendors, and develop hardware test plans that validate performance across the flight envelope.
• Define and own fuel system architecture suitable for tail-sitter operation, including center-of-gravity management, vent and pressurization design, and unusable-fuel characterization across all attitudes.
• Support thermal management of propulsion, avionics, and payload heat loads under hover, transition, and cruise conditions.
• Actively contribute to the enhancement of team tools, templates, processes, and standards for fluids systems engineering.

Job requirements

• A minimum of 8+ years in a technical engineering role in a professional setting, with a focus on aircraft or aerospace fluids systems.
• Strong technical knowledge in fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and the design, analysis, testing, and qualification of aircraft fluids systems.
• Deep understanding of fuel, hydraulic, thermal management, environmental control, and/or pneumatic system architectures and the trades between them.
• Hands-on experience designing, building, and testing fluids systems hardware, including component selection, plumbing routing, and integration into a flight vehicle.
• Experience in an immersive technical project (collegiate project teams or professional settings).
• Strong proficiency in CAD software (any platform, but NX preferred), with specific emphasis on plumbing, routing, and complex system installations.
• Proficiency with system-level fluids analysis tools (e.g., Flowmaster, AFT Fathom/Arrow, GT-SUITE, EASY5, Simulink/Simscape, or equivalent).
• Working knowledge of applicable airworthiness and aerospace standards (e.g., SAE AS, MIL-STD, AS9100) for fluids components and systems.