Senior Propulsion Engineer

About
The company is a center of excellence for propulsion technologies, specializing in the design, engineering, and manufacturing of combustion engines, expendable turbojet engines, and turbofan engines for a wide range of aerospace, defense, and autonomous applications, including fixed- and rotary-wing UAVs and other advanced platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and support the functional architecture and system breakdown structure to ensure performance compliance of the product (engine, propulsion sub-system).
• Allocate and manage system-level requirements.
• Lead trade-offs between performance, cost, weight, and durability.
• Manage and maintain interface control documents (ICDs, FICDs).
• Ensure architectural consistency throughout development phases and in interface with Product Management line, Module Manager, Certification and Safety engineers, and Integration & Test teams.

Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 8 years of experience within turbofan propulsion, aerospace, or other complex engineered systems.
• Solid understanding of turbofan architectures and test plan-validation, engine performance (including engine build-up and dressing, AGB, ECU, modules FAN/LPC/HPC/HPT/LPT/TRF/OGV…, sub-systems and their integration constraints).
• Strong knowledge of System engineering, MBSE (SysML, V-Cycle…), functional declination, methodologies, and standards.
• Knowledge of certification scheme (CS-E) and safety principles (FHA, PSSA…).
• Exposure to customer, OEMs, authorities, and complex environments.

Skills

• Sense of detail with a macro vision.
• Ability to anticipate impacts (life-cycle cost, planning, safety, performance) and arbitrate.
• Ability to analyze and structure complex information into actionable product decisions under pressure with a sense of urgency.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment, across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial teams.
• High communication skills, synthesis mindset, team player.