Aeronautical Engineer, Staff

Lockheed Martin•Huntsville, AL

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more — we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future. At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We’re erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We’re advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we’re reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity. Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you. As an Aero Engineer you will work spacecraft plume contamination analysis using gas dynamics to model how plumes affect sensitive hardware, preventing mission failure by analyzing molecular transport, creating CFD/DSMC models, possibly selecting materials, and working across teams from design to launch, focusing on rarefied flows and contamination control. In addition you will support hypersonic aerodynamics where you will help develop aerodynamic databases and help define environments associated with thermal and pressure loads across all flight regimes.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in Physics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline and/or equivalent education and experience
Performing plume analysis and high altitude DSMC analysis
Performing a variety of aerodynamics analyses related to missile systems and with a particular emphasis on hypersonics and hydrodynamics.
Creating technical memos.
Providing input to data packages to support peer and customer reviews.
Presenting analysis results to internal engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel during technical exchange meetings.

Nice To Haves

Hypersonic Aero/Thermal experience
DSMC analysis
Plume analysis
CFD Meshing – Pointwise preferred
CFD experience – Fluent, GASP, Cart3D, CBAERO, Star-CCM+ preferred
CFD Post-processing
Large dataset post-processing experience
Software development / programming experience (Fortran, C, Python, etc)
Integrated system level modeling and simulation
Linux experience
MS Office experience

Responsibilities

spacecraft plume contamination analysis using gas dynamics to model how plumes affect sensitive hardware
preventing mission failure by analyzing molecular transport
creating CFD/DSMC models
possibly selecting materials
working across teams from design to launch, focusing on rarefied flows and contamination control
support hypersonic aerodynamics
help develop aerodynamic databases
help define environments associated with thermal and pressure loads across all flight regimes