Fast-transient power systems. Embedded controllers operating in millisecond time scales. Instrumentation and controls that turn a gas turbine into an intelligent machine. Backed by Bessemer, Y Combinator and South Park Commons.
About the role
Boom is building jet engines out of high-temperature superalloys, and every material decision we make - alloy selection, heat treat verification, allowables, failure analysis on parts pulled from our own test cell - depends on data generated in a materials lab. We're standing that lab up right now: mechanical testing (tensile, LCF, HCF, creep, high-temperature), metallography, and SEM.
What they're looking for
- Plan and execute mechanical test campaigns on aerospace alloys: tensile (room and elevated temperature), LCF/HCF fatigue, and creep/stress rupture
- Work shoulder-to-shoulder with lab technicians and senior M&P engineers - everyone preps, everyone tests, everyone documents
- Write and validate the lab's test procedures against ASTM standards - then improve them
- Build the data backbone: specimen tracking, test logs, raw data pipelines, and reduction scripts that turn test output into design-usable material data
- Support metallographic evaluation and SEM inspection - microstructure verification, fractography, and failure analysis on engine hardware
- Support allowables-style test programs: test matrices, traceability, and statistical treatment of material property data
More about this role
Boom is building jet engines out of high-temperature superalloys, and every material decision we make - alloy selection, heat treat verification, allowables, failure analysis on parts pulled from our own test cell - depends on data generated in a materials lab. We're standing that lab up right now: mechanical testing (tensile, LCF, HCF, creep, high-temperature), metallography, and SEM. This is your chance to be the first dedicated lab and test engineer in a brand new lab and work with world-class material scientists and engineers to create the supersonic jet engine that enables a supersonic passenger renaissance.
Create a new, state-of-the-art materials lab - this is the role you’ve been looking for.
At most places, you’ll inherit a lab with equipment other people picked and processes others defined. This is your chance to create a new lab from scratch, the way you’ve always wanted to see it done. Help spec equipment, hire lab techs, and define the way lab work gets done. You’ll select and commission the test frames, write the initial procedures, run the campaigns, reduce the data, and work directly with the design engineers to create the supersonic engine that will be part of...
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