Director of Engineering, Reentry
August 11
🏢 In-office - Los Angeles
Description
• As the head of Inversion’s Reentry teams, you will spearhead the creation, design, and leadership of Inversion’s products’ reentry systems and vehicles. • Inversion’s next-generation spacecraft is capable of operating in space and, on command, reentering anywhere in the world. • Inversion’s hypersonic lifting body design will create a highly maneuverable, highly accurate, and low-cost to produce vehicle that will be an industry-first. • Report directly to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). • Lead technical and programmatic architecture and execution of the Reentry systems on Inversion’s Arc vehicle including Aerodynamics, Thermal Protection Systems (TPS), Primary Structures, and Control Surfaces. • Responsible for the architecture definition, simulation-based performance analysis, development of hardware, validation of design, and production of a reentry vehicle. • Assemble an incredibly talent-dense team of engineers to design, analyze, build, test, and produce a reentry vehicle.
Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience in a relevant field with a minimum of 10+ years of engineering complex systems. • Minimum of 4 years of experience in hypersonic, supersonic, reentry, or rocketry flight sciences. • Demonstrated success in vehicle design and OML design that culminated in flight testing. • Strong knowledge of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), wind tunnel testing, aerothermal analysis, and glide trajectories. • Industry leadership experience managing interdisciplinary teams and responsibility over program-level technical decision-making. • Strong fundamentals on aerospace-level primary structures requirements and design. • Successful track record of taking projects from design through deployment into production.
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