Turbomachinery Structural Analysis Engineer

Boom Supersonic is building the breakthrough Overture supersonic airliner and the Superpower natural gas turbine — machines that push the boundaries of physics, manufacturing, and industrial ambition.

Boom Supersonic designed, built, and flew XB-1, the first civil supersonic jet made in America, and has sold Overture, the supersonic airliner, to major airlines. That same team is now building Symphony, the engine that powers Overture, and adapting Superpower, its industrial gas turbine, to power AI data centers.

Most structures seats mean running someone else's loads through someone else's model on one slice of one component, reporting the margin, and never seeing the part again. This one owns the hardware. You will own structural analysis end to end on rotating and static hardware, loads and boundary conditions through model, margin, and life, and you will be in the cell when the engine runs. Engines here are designed, built, and tested under one roof, so the disk you analyzed in the spring is a part you can put your hands on in the fall.

• →Own structural analysis of rotating and static hardware across the engine: disks, blisks, bladed disks, cored blades, shafts, cases, frames, mounts, and joints
• →Predict life across the failure modes that matter: disk burst, LCF, HCF, creep, and thermal-mechanical fatigue
• →Build the structural and thermal whole-engine models the discipline runs on, and the material models underneath them
• →Set frequency margin and clear high-cycle fatigue risk alongside aeromechanics and aero, iterating designs rather than rejecting them
• →Right-size the analysis to the question: hand calcs and coarse models when speed is what's needed, high-fidelity and test-correlated work when the risk earns it
• →Plan and support engine and rig testing, including instrumentation, being in the cell, and correlating prediction against measurement afterward
• →Disposition real hardware: evaluate non-conformances and support redesign on parts that are already built
• →Build the tools and automation the discipline depends on, and improve the analysis standards the team works to

• Hands-on structural analysis experience on turbomachinery or other rotating hardware, or airframe stress experience plus real appetite for rotating hardware
• Command of the fundamentals: load paths reasoned by hand, boundary conditions you can defend, and the judgment to know when a converged result is still wrong
• Life prediction experience across at least one of LCF, HCF, or creep
• A specialty you're genuinely deep in, and curiosity about the ones you aren't
• Comfort making a sound engineering call before all the information is in, and stating it as a conclusion rather than a hedge

• Fracture mechanics and damage tolerance experience, including setting or defending an inspection interval
• Rotordynamics depth: critical speeds, bearing stiffness, unbalance response
• Engine or rig test experience: instrumentation planning, clearing vibes, strain gauges or blade tip timing, post-test correlation
• Whole-engine modeling experience
• Part 33 or equivalent certification exposure on life-limited rotating parts
• Real software habits: tools you built that other people still use

Boom's engines are being designed, built, and tested under one roof. The work is hard, the pace is fast, and the standard is high. In return you get real ownership of whole components rather than a slice of one, exceptional teammates across aero, thermal, mechanical design, and test, and hardware you helped analyze running on a test stand in months rather than years.

To conform to U.S. Government aerospace technology export regulations (ITAR and EAR), applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about ITAR here.

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