First Stage Propulsion Engine System Technical Leader

First Stage Propulsive Engine System Technical Leader

Within the MaiaSpace Technical Team, you will be in charge of the overall Engine Propulsion Systems:

• Manage the engine specification for the MSP launcher and ensure convergence and consistency with all launcher architects, particularly with the first-stage architect (i.e., 3-engine bay). Particular attention must be paid to the launcher exploitation phase, aiming to optimize the business performance of both the Expendable Launch Vehicle and the Reusable Launch Vehicle.
• Contribute to the launcher development and verification plan, with a strong link to tests (objectives, exploitation, and measurement plan).
• Contribute to test and flight preparation activities (i.e., flight-worthiness file), forecasting, and analysis.
• Manage the first-stage engine technical database, configuration management, and coordination of planning activities with the engine supplier.
• Define and manage, together with the engine supplier, the technical logic and action plans related to technical issues.
• Ensure consistency with the upper-stage engine system design.

Your duties will include:

Design (Mechanical, Functional & Avionics)

• Concept studies, including trade-offs.
• Technical specification Requirements.
• Functional and justification files synthesis for MSP.
• Safety file.
• Roadmap and logics, e.g., tests.

Supplier Management

• Ensure coordination and convergence.

Support to the company’s technical strategy

• Support to the Propulsion roadmap.
• Support to industrialization and operation.

Qualification

• Master’s degree or equivalent in aerospace engineering.
• > 10 years of professional experience in the field of liquid propulsion and launcher systems.
• Sound knowledge in fluid systems, avionics systems and mechanical architecture, design and development.
• Sound knowledge of cryogenic fluids, control and regulation, mechanical justification.
• Sound knowledge of launcher system architecture design (function analysis, phase analysis, specification...).
• Sound knowledge in products and supplier management.
• Sound knowledge in test and launch campaign preparation.
• Experience with development and qualification process.

Skills

• Customer oriented
• Autonomous, proactive attitude towards resolution of problem
• Team player with the ability to collaborate with people from different disciplines and cultures
• Curious, pragmatic and capacity to arbitrate and make choice to guarantee the launcher optimization
• Negotiation skills
• Knowledge or practice of Agile methodology

Written and spoken communication is in French and English.