Overview

Grow With Us Your growth matters to usthats why we offer a variety of ways for you to develop your career. With professional and leadership development opportunities like Team Lead Academy, education reimbursement, mentoring, and company sponsored networking events, you can take control of your own career path on your own terms with a company that believes in you. A Place Where You Belong At the Amentum Space Exploration Division, people are at the heart of our business. We reflect a diversity of cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. We expect our people, clients, and partners to treat one another with dignity and respect. This means promoting inclusion, celebrating diversity, and appreciating the differences we all bring to our workplace. Support Your Well-Being Our comprehensive benefits package includes wellness programs, 11 paid holidays, parental leave, paid time off, employee perks and much more. With these benefits, plus the option for flexible schedules and possible remote a few days a week (depending on customer requirements) well support you as you pursue a balanced, fulfilling lifeat work and at home. Position Description: As an experienced Propulsion Design Engineer, you will provide inline design, development, and test support for propulsion systems used in NASAs Human Launch Systems. In this role, you will contribute to establishing flight rationale for Americas new human rated vehicles through both detailed design work and system level integration insight. You will join a multi discipline team responsible for developing propulsion components and mechanisms that must seamlessly integrate across broader vehicle systems. Success in this role requires strong collaboration, clear communication, and the ability to understand how individual hardware designs fit within the larger propulsion and mission architecture. Primary Job Duties: Participate in multi disciplinary engineering teams to develop new designs (CAD models, documents, drawings) with a focus on propulsion devices and supporting hardware. Apply system level thinking to ensure new designs integrate cleanly with upstream and downstream subsystems, including structures, mechanisms, avionics, fluid systems, and mission operations constraints. Use CREO parametric modeling software (including piping and additive manufacturing modules) to develop robust, manufacturable designs. Collaborate closely across MSFC organizations, other NASA centers, and partners to ensure design maturity, manufacturing readiness, and alignment with system requirements. Support development of integrated propulsion flight hardware and associated ground test equipment, helping identify interface risks and mitigation strategies early in the design lifecycle. Communicate effectively across diverse teams to build productive working relationships, share design intent, and ensure smooth integration across propulsion and vehicle systems. Qualifications: BS degree (MS preferred) in Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, or a related field is required. A degree from an ABET accredited institution is preferred. Typically requires an MS degree with 8 years of experience, or a Bachelors degree with 10 years of experience. Additional Qualifications: Proficiency with CAD tools such as CREO, NX CAD, or SolidWorks. Familiarity with ASME Y14.5 / ISO 1101 to drive dimensional strategies, produce compliant engineering drawings, and execute tolerance stack up analysis using CAD. Experience with Windchill or similar PLM software for configuration management and release workflows. Ability to independently own designs of integrated propulsion systems, additive manufactured hardware, and mechanical mechanisms with minimal oversight. Proficiency with Microsoft Office products (PowerPoint, Excel, Word). Experience with programming languages like Python and developing AI/ML models using frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Keras is desired. Excellent written and verbal communicatio