Specialist, Aerospace Engineer (Thermal Analysis)

Job Title: Specialist, Aerospace Engineer (Thermal Analysis)

Job Code: 33527

Job Location: Huntsville, AL

Job Schedule: 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

Use of technical expertise and specialized knowledge in the field of thermal and fluids analysis of solid rocket motor (SRM) components and systems. You will apply your skills to contribute to the development of company objectives and principles, aiming to achieve goals with a focus on solid rocket propulsion. This position employs technical principles, theories, and concepts, to complete CFD and thermal analysis for the SRM systems. Contribute to the creation of innovative principles, ideas, and analytical methods. Plus opportunities to provide solutions to technical challenges and sensitive issues that demand ingenuity, creativity, and innovation but are not typically complex. Work is performed under general oversight.

Essential Functions:

• Lead projects and work with general oversight. 


• Communicate effectively with internal (program office, chief engineers, etc.) and external customers.


• Drive the design from conceptual phase through detailed design.


• Complete and be familiar with hand calculation methods to perform initial sizing and verifications.


• Perform detailed thermal analysis using proprietary codes based from aerothermal tools such as ACE, gasket, and CMA to provide temperature predictions and ablation assessment of SRM insulators and other hardware components.


• Execute CFD analysis with commercial codes such as ANSYS Fluent to support thermal analysis and SRM design.


• Duties include test support for pre and post-test analysis of static fired motors for model validation.


• Provide rocket motor test instrumentation definition and data processing for production, bench, full engine qualification, etc.


• Ability to obtain a US Security Clearance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior thermal design experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior thermal design experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior thermal design experience.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Bachelor of Science or Masters in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering is preferred.


• Active US Secret Clearance is desired.


• Strong skills in the application and use of heat transfer and fluid dynamics applied to propulsion systems.


• Understanding of the function and design of solid rocket motors. 


• Hands on experience with the manufacturing of solid rocket motors.


• Experience coding Fortran as well as scripting with Python or Matlab is preferred.


• Software skills: CEA, CMA, Thermal Desktop, Fluent, CFD++ is desired.


• Ability to parse large amounts of data for analysis.

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