Aeronautical Engineer II (CFD Analyst)

Prior Work Experience and Skills

• Prior work experience or familiarity with aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, or computer programming
• Familiarity with generating CFD grids (2D or 3D, structured or unstructured)
• Understanding of inviscid vs. turbulent flows
• Experience or familiarity with any commercial CFD analysis tools (e.g., Ansys Fluent, Siemens Star-CCM+, CFD++, GASP)
• Strong mathematical, analytic, and data processing skills
• Willingness/ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance; US citizenship is required

Job 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 do more—innovate, invest, inspire, and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.

At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to 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're erasing boundaries and forming partnerships across industries and around the world. We're advancing spacecraft and the workforce to fuel the next generation. And we're reimagining how space can connect us, ensuring security and prosperity.

Responsibilities

Lockheed Martin Space is seeking a Aeronautical Engineer to join our Missile Flight Sciences team in Sunnyvale, CA!

This position will have the exciting opportunity to support the Aerothermal team, and the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Using various modeling & simulation methods and techniques to perform fluid dynamic analysis of varying levels of fidelity
• Support the modernization of legacy aero environments to inform missile hardware design
• Support post-test analysis for various test projects
• Ownership of computational, physics-based modeling & simulations from start to finish (development, assessment, results & documentation)
• Work and interact with multiple engineering fields across multiple sites
• Present key findings and results to internal and external customers & stakeholders
• Provide recommendations to support peer and customer reviews
• Provide documentation and recommendations to data packages to support key discussions, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and program milestone design reviews

You can learn more about Sunnyvale, CA by visiting this link.

Desired Skills

• Experience with grid generation using Cadence Pointwise
• Experience with PTC Creo
• Experience with Linux environments and using High-Performance Computing systems
• Academic knowledge or work experience with gas dynamics, rarified gases, turbulence modeling, hypersonic flows, or aeroheating
• Strong technical writing proficiency
• Experience with testing & instrumentation including test procedure development, instrumentation definition, test direction, and post-test model correlation
• Knowledge or experience with modern collaboration tools, such as Jira and Confluence
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including MS Office proficiency

Other Important Information

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