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Aeronautical Engineer Hypersonics Mid Career with Security Clearance

Huntsville, AL

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

Lockheed Martin Space is focused on harnessing the full potential of space to cultivate innovation and reduce costs. As an Aeronautical Engineer, you will apply advanced CFD tools and perform analyses related to flight vehicles and missile systems.

AerospaceNational SecurityRecruiting

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Apply state-of-the-art CFD tools to the design and analysis of flight vehicles

Perform basic CAD geometry manipulation, meshing, setting up and running solutions on local and remote Linux-based clusters, and post-processing results into formats suitable for engineering analyses (data sets, plots, images, etc.)

Have an understanding of a variety of fluid flow phenomena, including compressibility, turbulence, and heat transfer

Perform analyses related to missile launch vehicle systems, re-entry bodies, and satellites using various modeling and simulation methods and analytical techniques

Author technical memos and provide recommendations to data packages to support peer and customer reviews, and presenting analysis results to internal engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel during technical exchange meetings

Be willing to work odd hours and overtime on occasion

Qualification

CFD toolsHigh speed aerodynamicsThermal analysisHypersonic aerodynamicsComputer programmingGas dynamicsMathematical skillsCommunication skillsWind tunnel testingMissile configuration designSoftware packagesMaster's degreePhD in engineeringLeadership experience

Required

Professional work experience in some of the following: thermophysics, heat transfer, aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, and computer programming

Experience in modeling, simulation, analysis, or experimentation of high speed aerodynamics

Thermal analysis experience in the aerospace industry

Experience in leading or supervising research activities

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

Preferred

Experience or a strong educational background in some/all of the following disciplines: hypersonic aerodynamics, gas dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, and computer programming (C/C++, Matlab, Python)

Experience with solvers used by NASA for entry vehicles, e.g. FUN3D, Loci/CHEM

Prior experience developing and analyzing hypersonic thermochemically reacting flow fields

Strong mathematical and analytic skills

Excellent communication skills-both written and verbal, be self-motivated, and be able and willing to support multiple projects

Expertise in using the following software packages for grid generation and CFD similar to: Pointwise, Fluent, ANSA and TecPlot. Experience with Missile configuration design and pre and post flight missile performance analysis

Experience in planning and conducting wind tunnel tests

Master's degree or PhD in aerospace or mechanical engineering

Benefits

Paid Time off benefits

Flexible schedules

Competitive pay

Comprehensive benefits

Company

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