Senior Valves & Actuators Engineer
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing in founders building transformative companies across sectors like space, fintech, fashion tech, robotics, and more.
About MaC Venture Capital
MaC Venture Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders building ambitious, culture-defining companies. Their portfolio spans diverse industries, including companies like Stoke Space (reusable rockets), Pipe (embedded financial solutions), Finesse (fashion trend data analytics), and Chef Robotics (AI-enhanced food manipulation hardware). The firm positions itself as a 'conviction investor,' emphasizing deep engagement with founders and teams beyond just capital, offering strategic partnership and support through company milestones. MaC serves early-stage startup founders across a range of technology and consumer sectors, with a stated focus on backing bold, culture-defining companies.
Skills
About the Role
You will be responsible for defining, designing, manufacturing, testing, and qualifying various valve designs for both the stages and engines of the Nova launch vehicle. You will own the entire process for your designs, from concept through qualification. As part of a small, well-supported team, you'll have access to the resources you need to get the job done right while boosting your skills at a pace unmatched in most other roles. You should be ready to stay focused, move fast, self-direct, and learn on the fly.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering, or similar
- 5+ years of experience in design, build, and testing of valves for aerospace or industrial applications
- Hands on experience performing fabrication and assembly of components
- Exceptional command of fundamentals, including compressible flow, thermodynamics, structures, control systems, cryogenics, and instrumentation
- Understanding of revision-controlled P&ID's
- Understanding of aerospace standard fasteners, seals, tubing, fittings, and commercial off the shelf hardware
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Proficiency with instrumentation including pressure transducers, thermocouples, load cells, accelerometers, and flow meters
- Proficiency with fluid analysis tools (Siemens AMESim, REFPROP, Excel, Matlab, or equivalent)
- Proficiency in GD&T, tolerance stackups, and material selection
- Extensive experience with CAD tools and configuration management (Siemens NX and Teamcenter preferred)
Responsibilities
- Collect design requirements from multidisciplinary teams and use them to create concepts for valves and actuators
- Design components for use on the Nova launch vehicle, modeling parts using Siemens NX CAD software
- Perform structural analysis on components using hand calcs and FEA software
- Perform fluids analysis using hand calcs and CFD software
- Create manufacturing planning for building components in a high-rate production environment and be involved in valve and actuator builds on the production floor
- Create procedures and execute testing for valves and actuators, including acceptance testing, development testing, and qualification
- Coordinate directly with suppliers to procure parts
- Incorporate design for manufacturing best practices into designs to improve production efficiency
- Work with vehicle fluids, engines, and GNC teams to develop CONOPs and troubleshoot hardware issues on the vehicle
Benefits
- Equity in the form of stock options
- Subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- 4 weeks' Paid Time Off
- 10 days holidays including an end-of-year closure
- Paid Family/Parental Leave
- On-site gym or monthly wellness stipend
- Dog friendly offices