Hydraulics Engineer – Level 5 | Technical Specialist 3

Onsite in Savannah, Georgia

Help shape the systems behind the world’s most advanced business aircraft.

Join Gulfstream’s Hydraulics Engineering team and bring your experience to work that spans new aircraft development and Gulfstream’s current large-cabin fleet. As a Level 5 Engineer, you will work on complex hydraulic and related fluid-system challenges from design and integration through qualification and certification, with direct access to production aircraft, flight test operations, and laboratory environments.

This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who wants to stay close to the aircraft while providing technical leadership on projects that influence Gulfstream programs across the product lifecycle.

Your Opportunity

As a Level 5 Hydraulics Engineer, you will serve as a senior technical contributor on complex engineering projects involving hydraulic systems as well as waste and water systems.

You will have the opportunity to work across disciplines and environments, partnering with engineering teams, suppliers, production, flight test, and laboratory organizations to develop, integrate, qualify, and certify aircraft systems and components.

What You Will Do

• Lead engineering projects of significant complexity within established scope.
• Make authoritative technical decisions and recommendations that affect broader engineering activities.
• Apply advanced engineering principles and specialized technical knowledge to solve complex problems.
• Develop innovative engineering approaches, standards, methods, and technical guidance.
• Independently identify opportunities to improve product performance, cost, schedule, methods, and procedures.
• Plan and execute engineering investigations in areas where established precedents may be limited.
• Support hydraulic system design, including equipment installation, system routing, component qualification, secondary structure, electrical bonding, fire-test requirements, and certification.
• Support fluid-system simulation and related design analysis.
• Support waste and water system integration, including equipment installation, routing, cabin coordination, flammability, component qualification, secondary structure, and electrical bonding.
• Collaborate with suppliers on joint design and qualification activities.
• Support new aircraft certification activities and applicable requirements, including ARP4754A and RTCA DO-160.
• Work directly with aircraft, production, flight test, and laboratory environments to support design development and problem solving.
• Support aircraft electronic integration considerations involving areas such as CAS messages, GCMS, and CMC pages.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

What You Will Bring

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related curriculum applicable to the position, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• With a bachelor’s degree:
  • 13 years of experience in a specific technical discipline, or
  • 15 years of broad engineering experience across several technical disciplines.
• Experience credit for related advanced degrees is limited to 2 years for a master’s degree and 4 years for a PhD in a field applicable to the position.
• Ability to read, write, speak, and understand the English language.

Experience especially relevant to this opportunity includes:

• Aircraft hydraulic systems, fluid systems, or related mechanical systems.
• Aircraft equipment installation and integration.
• Hydraulic system routing and design considerations.
• Fluid-system simulation.
• Component qualification and certification.
• Secondary aircraft structure, bracketry, and support structure.
• Fire testing and flammability requirements.
• Electrical bonding.
• Waste and water systems.
• Cabin and aircraft-system integration.
• Supplier joint design and qualification.
• CATIA V5 and SmarTeam.
• New aircraft certification.
• ARP4754A and RTCA DO-160.
• Hands-on familiarity with aircraft.
• Engineering experience within an aircraft original equipment manufacturer.
• Aircraft electronics integration involving CAS messages, GCMS, or CMC pages.
• Gulfstream engineering processes.

An advanced degree in engineering or a related curriculum is preferred.

Candidates do not need experience in every area listed above. We are looking for experienced engineers who bring strong technical depth along with the drive to learn, contribute, and continue growing across these areas.

Apply Now

Bring your engineering experience to a team where you can work across the aircraft lifecycle, tackle complex technical challenges, and stay connected to the aircraft from development through certification and production.

Join Gulfstream and help us create and deliver the world’s finest aviation experience.