Combustion & Thermal Systems Engineer

We're Hiring: Combustion & Thermal Systems Engineer

Full time | Core team

LAT Aerospace | Gas Turbine Engines

At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a

next-generation family of gas-turbine engines. We’re looking for an engineer who can take

ownership of combustor design, reacting-flow analysis, and thermal behaviour across the

hot-section: covering design, CFD, rig testing, and performance evaluation.

What you’ll do

• Combustor Architecture & Flow Design – Develop combustor layouts, define swirler/injector concepts, and shape primary, secondary, and dilution zones.

• Reacting-Flow CFD – Run and interpret steady/reacting CFD to predict flame structure, mixing, pressure loss, temperature fields, and combustor exit profiles.

• Thermal Profiling & Pattern Factor Control – Analyse combustor exit temperature distributions, tune pattern factor , and ensure turbine inlet conditions meet performance and life requirements.

• Metal Temperature & Heat-Load Assessment – Estimate metal temperatures using heat transfer correlations, flow distributions, and material limits in collaboration with turbine and materials teams.

• Experimental Testing – Conduct combustor and flame-tube tests, oversee instrumentation, analyse data, and correlate test results with CFD/analytical predictions.

What we're looking for

• Master’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering with focus on combustion, aerodynamics, or thermal sciences.

• 3+ years of experience in gas turbine combustion design, analysis, or testing.

• Strong understanding of combustion physics, flame stability, mixing, ignition, emissions, and combustor aerodynamics.

• Advanced proficiency in reacting-flow CFD (Fluent or similar).

• Experience in designing the combustion test rigs, instrumentation, data acquisition, and test–CFD correlation.

• Strong analytical foundation in heat transfer , compressible flow, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.

• Proficient in using CAD software (NX or equivalent).

• Programming experience for automation and data processing.

Why LAT?

• Core team opportunity at a high-conviction deep-tech startup.

• Build India’s next-generation GTEs - the kind that India has never seen before.

• Work in an environment where hardware development moves fast, ownership is high, and engineering matters.