Lead Jet Engine Design Engineer

Who we are

Sphere Defense is a fully funded technology startup with the mission of providing allied countries with sovereign, effective and seamless autonomous countermeasures to neutralize todays’ and tomorrow’s aerial threats.

Sphere Defense was founded by industry veterans with previous successful exits, and is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, in the heart of Europe.

About you

You are an experienced and highly-motivated Lead Jet Engine Design Engineer who has worked with small scale jet engines or gas turbines with demonstrated end-to-end ownership.

What you’ll do

• Be one of the first members of a high-performing team, designing and developing autonomous countermeasures to protect allied countries from aerial threats

• Own the design, simulation and validation of small-scale jet engines to be mounted on our proprietary UAS designs, from conception to mass manufacturing

• Grow the Jet Engine Design team, as its first member

• Employ aerodynamic and thermodynamic modeling to design and optimize Jet Engines

• Execute structural analysis (including fatigue) and estimate lifetime and wear of key components

• Work with the manufacturing engineering team and external partners to establish and scale up production

• Work with the Aeronautics team to integrate the engine in autonomous, unmanned aircrafts

• Coordinate testing and validation, internally and externally

• Be hands-on, developing and testing prototypes with the team in the lab and the field

• Draft and review documentation for manufacturing

• Be a team player and a mentor, being available to support and grow the team when needed

Location: Onsite in Brussels, Belgium. Our office is close to Gare Centrale.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Fluid mechanics, Aerospace engineering, Aerodynamics, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent

• At least 6 years of demonstrated end-to-end ownership in designing production-grade turbomachinery such as jet engines or gas turbines

• Intimate knowledge of fluid dynamics and aerodynamics

• Proficiency with mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of turbomachinery

• Experience with materials and alloys employed in gas turbines (Inconel, ceramic bearings, titanium, etc.)

• Proficiency in CAD packages such as SolidWorks and CFD/FEA tools such as Ansys, CFturbo, STAR-CCM

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the integration of jet engines in UAS designs

• Experience with the creation of testing/validation jigs for turbomachinery

• Experience with manufacturing techniques commonly employed in turbomachinery

• Knowledge of Python

What we offer

• Attractive compensation

• Year-end bonus eligibility

• Stock Options Plan eligibility

• Mobility Budget

• 32 days of holidays

• Meal vouchers

• Private Health insurance

We are building a core team of hard-working people. If you want to join a company with tremendous impact and you are autonomous, creative and driven, we want to hear from you!

Sphere Defense offers a unique opportunity to change the global defense landscape.

This role is only open to candidates with right to work in Belgium. We cannot provide visa sponsorship at this time.