R&D Engineer II – SRM Ballistician
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Job Description
Ballistician generating rocket motor concepts from thrust/burn time requirements. Collaborating with engineering teams to refine designs and ensure manufacturability.
Responsibilities:
- Generate rocket motor concepts from high level thrust/burn time requirements, and refining into detailed grain and nozzle designs.
- Collaborate to define propellant grain geometries and optimize burn rates, thrust curves, and pressure profiles.
- Work with design engineers to communicate operating pressures, analysts to communicate temperature and load profiles, chemists to communicate ballistic requirements, and manufacturing engineers to ensure grain geometry can be produced.
- Conducts research, design, and development activities with the goal of developing new or improved products, processes, or services.
- Collaborates with internal manufacturing partners, contract manufacturers, designers and product specialists to optimize designs for manufacturability.
- Utilizes CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) systems to model new designs and produce detailed engineering drawings.
Requirements:
- Associate's Degree and 2-4 years' experience.
- Engineering degree required.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- Knowledge, skills & abilities: Product innovation, product intelligence, product research, project scoping, quantitative research, research and development, research documentation, oral and written communication skills, critical thinking, analytical thinking.
Benefits:
- Employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and basic life insurance as well as pre-tax spending accounts.
- Employees are also able to enroll in the company's 401k plan and are eligible for the Non-Contributory Retirement Contribution.
- In addition to the benefits discussed above, the company offers the following voluntary benefits: Critical Illness Insurance, Accident Insurance, Identify Theft Protection, Enhanced Legal Services, Auto and Home Insurance, Pet Insurance, Commuter Benefits, Hospital Indemnity Insurance, Educational Assistance.
- PTO, Holiday, and Family Leave. Employees will receive 11 paid holidays and 120 hours of PTO annually and up to 3 weeks paid family leave.


















