Specialist, Aerospace Engineer (Thermal Analysis)

Job Description :

Use of technical expertise and specialized knowledge in the field of thermal and fluids analysis of solid rocket motor (SRM) components and systems. You will apply your skills to contribute to the development of company objectives and principles, aiming to achieve goals with a focus on solid rocket propulsion. This position employs technical principles, theories, and concepts, to complete CFD and thermal analysis for the SRM systems. Contribute to the creation of innovative principles, ideas, and analytical methods. Plus opportunities to provide solutions to technical challenges and sensitive issues that demand ingenuity, creativity, and innovation but are not typically complex. Work is performed under general oversight.

Essential Functions :

• Lead projects and work with general oversight.
• Communicate effectively with internal (program office, chief engineers, etc.) and external customers.
• Drive the design from conceptual phase through detailed design.
• Complete and be familiar with hand calculation methods to perform initial sizing and verifications.
• Perform detailed thermal analysis using proprietary codes based from aerothermal tools such as ACE, gasket, and CMA to provide temperature predictions and ablation assessment of SRM insulators and other hardware components.
• Execute CFD analysis with commercial codes such as ANSYS Fluent to support thermal analysis and SRM design.
• Duties include test support for pre and post-test analysis of static fired motors for model validation.
• Provide rocket motor test instrumentation definition and data processing for production, bench, full engine qualification, etc.
• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

Qualifications :

Preferred Additional Skills :

Software skills : CEA, CMA, Thermal Desktop, Fluent, CFD++ is desired.

Ability to parse large amounts of data for analysis.

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