Thermal Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering or Aerospace Engineering.
• Practical experience in thermal or structural finite element analysis (FEA).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to obtain Interim Secret security clearance by the start date and ultimately obtain Top Secret clearance; U.S. citizenship is required for eligibility to access classified information.

Nice To Haves

• Internship experience in the aerospace industry designing or evaluating vehicle performance.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform multi-fidelity thermal and structural analyses using commercial and in-house software to support vehicle aerothermal and structural design across flow regimes from subsonic to hypersonic.
• Predict and model material and structural responses for air-vehicle configurations, including hypersonic re-entry vehicles and supersonic and hypersonic air-breathing concepts.
• Plan and execute ground tests and design models for wind tunnel and arcjet facilities.
• Conduct pre-test and post-test analyses to validate numerical predictions, then create and improve high-fidelity models.
• Design conceptual vehicles and perform detailed multidisciplinary system analyses, including integration with launch platforms.

Benefits

• Robust education assistance program.
• Retirement contributions.
• Work/life balance.
• Retirement plans, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, education assistance, and training and development.
• Potential sign-on bonus, relocation benefits, locality allowance, or discretionary payments for exceptional performance.