Fluids System Engineer First Stage

Fluids System Engineer First Stage

MaiaSpace

Paris, France

Job description

Within MaiaSpace Technical Team, you’ll be in charge of the First Stage Fluid Systems design:

• End-to-end definition of cryogenic and non-cryogenic fluid systems for ground, propulsive and orbital phases: architecture, products, operational concepts
• Fluidic and thermos-fluidic simulations (tanks and lines)
• Support to technologies selection for the related hardware systems: tanks, thermal protections, fluid control equipment, sensors…
• System and functional engineering supporting design justification: pressurization and fluid budget, sloshing management, engine fluidic interface compliance, transversal interactions…

Your duties will include:

• Design
  • Functional concept studies, including trade-offs
  • Detailed functional layout (PID) and justification
  • Development of design tools for functional design and 1D/3D simulation models for development, qualification and validation
  • Test prediction and exploitation
• Supplier management
  • Sourcing
  • Scope of work definition
  • Contract management
• Support to Company technical strategy
  • Support to the technology roadmap
  • Support to industrialization and operation

Job requirements

Specific competences & abilities:

• Sound knowledge in Fluids system architecture, design and development
• Sound knowledge of cryogenic fluids behavior, hydraulic, heat transfer and phase change/two-phase flown processes, as well as related products/equipment
• Sound knowledge of 1D correlation methods and computational fluid dynamics tools used for the analyses of steady and transient analysis
• Sound knowledge in thermall behavior (tanks and lines) in cryogenic environment
• Experience with test data analysis and database tools
• Customers oriented
• Autonomous, proactive attitude towards resolution of problem
• Team player with the ability to collaborate with people from different disciplines
• Curious and pragmatic
• Knowledge or practice of Agile methodology

Qualification:

• Master degree or equivalent in aerospace engineering
• 5 years experience of professional experience in the field of liquid propulsion and fluidic systems