Staff Thermal Engineer, Hypersonic Air Vehicles

Highlights

• Own thermal design for hypersonic unmanned air vehicles from concept to flight test.
• Define thermal architectures for vehicles operating in demanding flight environments.
• Lead ground and flight test analysis for resilient systems in contested environments.

Ideal candidate

Veteran aerospace thermal engineer with 15+ years on high-speed flight programs who thrives owning hardware from concept through flight test and is mission-driven to defend the U.S. and allies.

Requirements

• MS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Applied Physics with focus on heat transfer and fluid dynamics
• 15+ years of experience in aerospace thermal engineering on rocket, aircraft, or missile programs
• Experience with thermal analysis in high-speed flight regimes
• Thermal analysis experience using CFD (STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Fluent) and/or FEA thermal solvers
• Experience with thermal-structural coupling
• Ground testing experience with thermal instrumentation and data acquisition
• Strong programming skills in MATLAB, Python, or similar for tool development
• CAD experience with SolidWorks or Siemens NX
• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance