Aeronautical Engineer, Senior

Description

Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future‑ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision. We erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world, advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation, and reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

As an Aeronautical Engineer, Senior you will work spacecraft plume contamination analysis using gas dynamics to model how plumes affect sensitive hardware, preventing mission failure by analyzing molecular transport, creating CFD/DSMC models, possibly selecting materials, and working across teams from design to launch, focusing on rarefied flows and contamination control. In addition you will support hypersonic aerodynamics where you will help develop aerodynamic databases and help define environments associated with thermal and pressure loads across all flight regimes.

• Bachelors degree in Physics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline and/or equivalent education and experience
• Performing plume analysis and high altitude DSMC analysis
• Performing a variety of aerodynamics analyses related to missile systems with a particular emphasis on hypersonics and hydrodynamics
• Creating technical memos
• Providing input to data packages to support peer and customer reviews
• Presenting analysis results to internal engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel during technical exchange meetings

• Hypersonic Aero/Thermal experience
• DSMC analysis
• Plume analysis
• CFD Meshing – Pointwise preferred
• CFD experience – Fluent, GASP, Cart3D, CBAERO, Star-CCM+ preferred
• CFD Post‑processing
• Large dataset post‑processing experience
• Software development / programming experience (Fortran, C, Python, etc)
• Integrated system level modeling and simulation
• Linux experience
• MS Office experience

This position requires a government security clearance; you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

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Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.

Ability to Work Remotely: Onsite Full‑time:
The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.

Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five‑day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time Off benefits.

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

The annual base salary range for this position in California, Massachusetts, and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $85,500 – $150,765. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Pay ranges may vary by region and are guidelines only.

The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $98,300 – $170,315. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location.…