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Senior Propulsion Engineer

Unlock employer Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 28 Apr 2026

Financial

  • Estimate: $90k - $120k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

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.

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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.
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