Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. EVONA is an established engineering business working at the forefront of controllable solid propulsion and open architecture airborne ISR technologies. They are seeking a Mechanical Design Engineer with hands-on pressure vessel and seal design experience in extreme high temperature environments to design and develop critical components for defense programs.
Responsibilities
- Designing pressure vessels and high temperature sealing solutions where refractory material selection is critical to survival of the hardware
- Leading development of hot gas valve and rocket thruster designs, specialised igniters and solid rocket motor systems
- Optimising actuator performance and generating complex actuator designs with supporting performance analysis
- Running trade studies across multidisciplinary constraints and making clear design recommendations
- Producing detailed 2D and 3D CAD models and technical drawings, applying and interpreting complex GD&T
- Supporting structural, dynamic and thermal analysis, interpreting results and feeding them back into design optimisation
- Selecting materials and optimising metal and refractory selection for challenging thermal applications
- Working with manufacturing on additive, machining, composite layups, molding and casting, and assembly
- Supporting test assembly and integration, custom fixture design, instrumentation troubleshooting and measurement uncertainty analysis
- Writing clear technical documentation and presenting to internal and customer audiences
Skills
- Pressure vessel and seal design in very high temperature environments (1000's of degrees F) requiring refractory materials
- 10 to 15 years of mechanical engineering experience
- BS in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering or a related discipline (equivalent experience considered)
- Strong 3D CAD and drafting capability, with confident application of GD&T
- US citizenship and eligibility for a US security clearance
- Rocket motor design and testing experience
- MS in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering or a related discipline
- Background in structural, dynamic or thermal simulation
- Experience in a small company environment where engineers own problems end to end
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