Specialist - Aerospace Engineering

Job Title: Specialist, Aerospace Engineering

Job Code: 46237

Job Location: West Palm Beach, FL

Job Schedule: 9/80; Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Advanced Missile Propulsion & Technologies (AMPT) is seeking an Aerothermal & Fluids Analysis Engineer to contribute to the development and execution of air breathing hypersonic programs. Your work will directly influence and provide solutions to highly complex technical challenges. You will employ advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts, to complete Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) solutions, engine performance modeling, and thermal analysis for supersonic combustion and hypersonic vehicles.

Essential Functions:

• Provide analysis via commercial and proprietary codes with high fidelity models.

• Communicate effectively with internal (program office, chief engineers, etc.) and external customers.

• Drive designs from a conceptual phase through detailed design, be part of component and systems tests, contribute to products from Internal Research and Development (IRAD) phase through production.

• Efficiently perform detailed Computational Fluid Dynamics for performance modeling and thermal boundary condition generation.

• Efficiently perform Finite Element Method analysis for detailed thermal analysis to determine material survivability and provide temperatures for structural analysis.

• Duties could include test support for pre and post-test analysis of ramjet/scramjet engines for model validation and post-test data reduction.

• Ability to obtain a US Secret Security Clearance.

• Travel 10% - typically in support of testing

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Active US Secret Clearance is preferred.

• Knowledge and experience with air-breathing, high-speed propulsion systems used in defense applications.

• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team

• Strong skills in the application and use of fluid dynamics and heat transfer applied to propulsion systems.

• Understanding of the function and design of actively cooled rocket engines and turbomachinery.

• Hands on experience in a flow testing environment, testing of liquid or solid fueled ramjet engines is a plus.

• Ability to parse large amounts of data for analysis. Ability to identify and quantify patterns within a dataset and between datasets, assisted by AI where applicable.

• Software skills: familiarity with CFD++, ANSYS, Pointwise, Thermal Desktop, Python, and Matlab. Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Word, Excel, etc.) is required.

• Familiarity with CAD software tools like CREO or Siemens-NX is a plus.

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