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Salary: USD 167,000 - 210,000 / annual
Boom Supersonic is developing Symphony, the engine powering Overture (the world's fastest airliner) and Superpower (a natural gas turbine for next-gen AI data centers). The company is building these systems in Denver at a pace and cost the aerospace industry says is impossible.
You will own the complete CNC machining process for complex turbomachinery components—blisks, airfoils, impellers, and other difficult aerospace hardware. Your responsibilities span from engineering the machining strategy through production optimization: developing toolpaths and tooling strategies, designing workholding and fixtures, programming advanced 5-axis CAM, setting up and proving processes directly on machines, diagnosing and resolving production issues, and optimizing for cycle time, tool life, and process capability.
Key responsibilities include:
- Develop and own CNC machining processes for blisks, airfoils, and complex turbomachinery components
- Program advanced 5-axis machining using high-end CAM software
- Develop toolpaths, tooling strategies, fixtures, posts, macros, and probing routines
- Set up and prove out difficult processes directly on the machine
- Diagnose and resolve problems involving program, tooling, fixture, machine, material, or cutting conditions
- Machine challenging materials including Inconel, nickel-based superalloys, titanium, and other difficult alloys
- Optimize cycle time, tool life, process capability, and machine utilization
- Engineer processes for reliable, lights-out machining
- Train and mentor engineers, programmers, machinists, and operators
- Lead technically challenging projects
This is a principal-level technical expert role. You will be the person others call when standard answers don't work. You'll establish processes others can follow and raise the technical capability of the organization.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Expert-level CNC programming experience with at least one high-end CAM system
- Deep knowledge of CNC machines, controls, posts, macros, probing, and machine behavior
- Significant experience machining blisks, airfoils, impellers, bladed components, or other complex turbomachinery hardware
- Extensive production experience with Inconel, nickel-based superalloys, titanium, or similar materials
- Strong knowledge of tooling, workholding, cutting conditions, tool life, chatter, deflection, and process stability
- Proven ability to take complex processes from development through production
- Ability to work across different CAM systems, machine brands, and controls
- Ability to clearly explain technical decisions and teach others
- Understanding of machining physics behind chatter, tool failure, deflection, part movement, and dimensional instability
- Demonstrated ability to machine thin airfoils in nickel or titanium without unacceptable chatter or deflection
- Ability to develop custom posts, macros, probing strategies, or toolpaths when standard CAM capabilities are insufficient
- ITAR requirement: Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
