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Lockheed Martin · 4 days ago

Aeronautical Engineer, Senior

positionCalifornia, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level

Lockheed Martin is a leader in space technology, focusing on innovation and security. As a Senior Aeronautical Engineer, you will conduct spacecraft plume contamination analysis and support hypersonic aerodynamics to develop aerodynamic databases and define environments for various flight regimes.

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Responsibilities

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
Support hypersonic aerodynamics where you will help develop aerodynamic databases and help define environments associated with thermal and pressure loads across all flight regimes

Qualification

Hypersonic Aero/Thermal experienceDSMC analysisPlume analysisCFD experienceSoftware developmentIntegrated system modelingLinux experienceCFD MeshingCFD Post-processingLarge dataset post-processingMS Office experience

Required

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

Preferred

CFD Meshing – Pointwise
CFD experience – Fluent, GASP, Cart3D, CBAERO, Star-CCM+

Company

Lockheed Martin

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Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that specializes in advanced technology systems, products, and services. It is a sub-organization of Lockheed Martin.
dateFounded in 1912
location
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.lockheedmartin.com

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$6.06B
Key Investors
Air Force Research Laboratory
2025-12-05Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2025-08-28Post Ipo Debt· $3B
2023-11-13Grant· $33.7M

Leadership Team

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Jim Taiclet
Chairman, President & CEO
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Craig Martell
Chief Technology Officer
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