Aerothermal Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Support the development and operations of New Glenn, a heavy-lift orbital launch vehicle
• Support aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic design for various spaceflight systems
• Analyze for vehicle-level aerothermal and rocket plume models and loads
• Develop and document aerothermodynamic models and databases for space launch and reentry vehicles using various methods
• Address aerothermal environments for surface features and impacts of rocket plume heating during all phases of flight

• BS degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• 2+ years of experience in the fields of aerothermal or thermodynamic analysis
• Strong aerodynamic fundamentals and intuition through multiple flight regimes (subsonic, transonic, supersonic, hypersonic, free molecular flow)
• Proven experience deriving space vehicle aerothermal environments
• Proven experience with one or more aerothermal CFD modeling tools (LAURA, DPLR, FUN3D, US3D, etc.)
• Experience with CFD pre and post processing (Pointwise, Link3D, Ensight, Tecplot, etc.)
• Proven track record using scripting and programming languages for automation and data manipulation.
• MS or higher degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering (preferred)
• Experience modeling rocket plume environments, both direct impingement and indirect heating (preferred)
• Proven experience using Link3D and US3D (preferred)
• Experience in Multiphysics simulations of hypersonic flows (preferred)
• Experience with tool development using MATLAB (preferred)
• Knowledge in the use of 3D CAD tools (CREO) (preferred)