Simulation Engineer

Drogue•Washington, DC

12h•Onsite

About The Position

Drogue is building the world's first offshore floating data centers. We're a small team tackling a massive, first-of-its-kind engineering challenge. If you thrive in ambiguity, love hard problems, and want to build something that's never been built before — keep reading. We're not putting servers on a barge. We're engineering a new class of ocean-deployed infrastructure that generates its own power, recovers its own waste heat, stays on station in severe weather, and runs autonomously. This requires a mix of first principles engineering and existing technology from other industries. As a Simulation Engineer you'll build the computational backbone that lets us test, break, and optimize our platform before it ever hits the water. From high-fidelity CFD models to multi-physics simulations to digital twins, you'll create the virtual environment where our engineering team makes decisions faster and with more confidence. When something needs to be modeled, simulated, or visualized, that's you. There is no legacy tool stack to defend, you'll help build it from scratch.

Requirements

B.S./M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Engineering, or related field
Strong proficiency in various simulation platforms, strong opinions on tool selection for FEA, CFD, and hydrodynamic modeling
Experience building simulations that informed real engineering decisions, not just academic exercises

Responsibilities

Build and maintain high-fidelity models and simulation environments for the full platform
Develop multi-physics simulations: structural, thermal, fluid, and dynamic response under realistic ocean conditions
Create digital twin frameworks that tie simulation models to real sensor data as we move to prototype and deployment
Run scenario analysis (extreme weather, failure modes, load cases) so we find the problems before the ocean does