Aerospace Propulsion Specialist

As a Thruster Analysis Engineer, your primary responsibility will be the analysis of thruster firing datasets obtained from various test setups and firing modes.

You will interpret, process, and visualize data to extract meaningful insights and support performance evaluation. Additionally, you will collaborate with engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and testing of satellite propulsion systems.

The responsibilities of this role include designing and implementing data analysis algorithms and visualization tools to process and interpret results from monopropellant engine and thruster tests, collaborating with propulsion test engineers to understand test requirements, data formats, and analysis needs, ensuring accurate and insightful data processing, performing calculations, correlations, and statistical analysis to extract key performance metrics, generating plots, charts, and reports to summarize test results effectively, developing and refining software tools that enhance data analysis, automate result interpretation, and improve visualization for various test setups, continuously optimizing analysis methodologies by integrating advanced algorithms, improving efficiency, and enhancing data processing techniques, supporting activities by analysing test data, verifying propulsion system performance, and contributing to troubleshooting and validation efforts, working with simulation tools such as LabView and Simulink to support data-driven analysis and system evaluation, and assisting in satellite component testing by processing data from microcontrollers, flight computers, and related systems, ensuring seamless data interpretation and integration.

Requirements for this role include a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, plus one year of industrial experience, minimum one year of experience in propulsion system analysis, aerospace engineering, or a related field, hands-on experience in analyzing propulsion test data, including thruster performance, efficiency, and fault detection, strong understanding of aerospace propulsion, including combustion, fluid flow, and heat transfer, experience working with monopropellant, bipropellant, or electric propulsion systems, skilled in using Python and MATLAB for data analysis, signal processing, and trend identification in aerospace applications, experience with LabView and Simulink for propulsion system simulations and test data validation, ability to create clear and useful data visualizations using tools like Matplotlib, Plotly, or Bokeh, experience handling large datasets, including telemetry data from propulsion tests, familiarity with data verification and validation to ensure accuracy and reliability of propulsion system analysis, strong skills in data analysis and statistics, preferably catered towards aerospace propulsion systems, good understanding of chemical and electric propulsion systems and how they work, knowledge of how fluids, heat, and chemical reactions affect propulsion system performance, ability to analyse thruster efficiency, combustion stability, and system performance, familiarity with tools like LabView and Simulink for monitoring and analysing propulsion systems, experience working with propulsion test setups, including sensors, data collection, and performance checks, basic understanding of aerospace engineering, including spacecraft parts and propulsion system integration, strong problem-solving skills to identify trends and issues in test results, ability to write clear reports and explain findings to aerospace and propulsion engineers, and good teamwork skills and ability to work well with experts from different fields in aerospace.