This role is hands-on, analysis-driven, and highly cross-functional,requiring collaboration with design, fluids, controls, airframe, manufacturing, flight test, and mission teams.

Responsibilities: Act as the single-threaded owner for the engine, accountable for all technical decisions from concept to flight. Define and manage engine requirements, interfaces, integration strategy, and performance goals. Lead ground and flight testing of the engine, including instrumentation planning, data acquisition, and analysis of key performance parameters (thrust, fuel flow, margin, transients). Analyse engine performance data across the flight envelope to validate behaviour, identify anomalies, and close design-to-mission gaps. Collaborate with airframe, controls, and mission engineering teams to ensure engine integration supports aircraft-level CONOPS, manoeuvrability, and reliability. Own engine-level fault management, failure investigations, and margin assessments. Guide the development of engine control logic and tuning, including throttle schedule design and transient response shaping. Represent the engine in design reviews, technical readiness checkpoints, leadership briefings, and customer engagements.

Required qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related engineering discipline. 5+ years of experience in jet engine development, testing, and integration. Demonstrated ownership of engine hardware through test and flight operations. Strong knowledge of aerospace engine fundamentals, including thermodynamic cycles, thrust modelling, operability limits, and transient response. Hands-on experience in engine testing, including sensor planning, data systems, and test execution. Proficiency in Python for performance analysis, data reduction, and model correlation. U.S. Citizenship or ability to comply with ITAR requirements.

Preferred qualifications: Experience with low-bypass turbofan engines on UAVs, tactical aircraft, or similar aerospace platforms. Familiarity with GFSSP, REFPROP, ANSYS, or FEA to support performance modelling and test correlation. Experience with engine control development, feedback tuning, and transient validation. Background in rocket engine development with transferable test or turbomachinery experience. Proficiency with Siemens NX and Teamcenter for interface review and configuration context. M.S. in Aerospace Engineering or a related discipline.

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