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This position requires an engineer who can own an SRM from requirements and preliminary sizing through detailed design, hardware fabrication, motor build, static test, design iteration, and transition toward production. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable with analysis, engineering drawings, manufacturing decisions, test hardware, and hands-on technical execution, with a good understanding of basic program management for pairing with other team members.\nThe defining qualification for this role is demonstrated ability to take a solid rocket motor from design into real hardware and through successful test.\nLocation:\nNew York or Texas (Candidate's Choice)\nThis position may be based at either iRocket's New York or Texas facility, depending on the candidate's preference.\nKey Responsibilities:\nLead solid rocket motor IR&D portfolio, to include sizing, design, analysis, development, build, and test activities from concept through production maturation.\nDesign and integrate motor cases (metal and/or composite), propellant grains (traditional and/or advanced formulations), insulation/liners, igniters, nozzles, closures, interfaces, and related SRM components and subsystems.\nPerform or direct internal ballistics, performance, structural, thermal, mass-properties, margin, and design-trade analyses appropriate to SRM development.\nGenerate and review engineering drawings, specifications, bills of material, interface requirements, build documentation, and configuration-controlled technical data.\nWork directly with manufacturing personnel and suppliers to resolve producibility issues, select materials and processes, and build flight-representative hardware.\nPlan and support motor assembly, instrumentation, static-fire testing, data reduction, post-test inspection, anomaly resolution, and design iteration.\nDrive design-for-manufacture and design-for-scale decisions that improve repeatability, affordability, throughput, and production readiness.\nProvide technical leadership across multidisciplinary teams and mentor developing engineers and technicians.\nRequirements\nRequired Qualifications\nAdvanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, propulsion, or a closely related engineering discipline.\nMinimum of Bachelor’s but preferred advanced minimum 5 years of directly relevant SRM design/development experience; 10+ years strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated experience designing and building solid rocket motors, with meaningful involvement in motor assembly and static-fire or flight-test activities.\nStrong working knowledge of SRM internal ballistics, grain geometry, case/nozzle/insulation design, materials, manufacturing methods, and propulsion-system integration.\nAbility to independently drive a motor development effort while making sound technical decisions in a fast-paced hardware environment.\nHighly Desired Experience\nRapid prototype-to-test development, tactical-class propulsion, advanced manufacturing, or high-rate SRM production.\nMotor case and nozzle design, thermal protection, igniter development, structural analysis, pressure-system design, or test instrumentation/data analysis.\nQualification, production transition, supplier development, root-cause investigation, and technical risk management.\nExperience leading integrated teams through design reviews, build readiness, test readiness, and production-readiness milestones.\nAccelerated Start: iRocket places a premium on candidates who can begin quickly. 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