Aerothermal Engineer

About the role

Aerothermal Engineers at ATS support material, component, and system development activities for hypersonic and other flight vehicle systems. They also collaborate closely with highly technical, collaborative team members to generate aerothermal boundary conditions, assess material response, perform survivability analysis, and design critical components and subsystems.

Responsibilities

• Generate aerothermal boundary conditions for vehicle analysis
• Assess material response (e.g., ablation, decomposition)
• Generate and analyze vehicle trajectories
• Perform survivability analysis and establish operational bounds
• Design important components and subsystems that enable vehicle performance
• Generate derived requirements for materials and components that inform manufacturing and integration activities

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering or related technical field (equivalent experience may be accepted)
• Secret DoD clearance or the ability to obtain one
• Experience supporting research and development activities
• Demonstrated experience developing thermal boundary conditions from flight trajectory data
• Experience performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis using commercial software tools (e.g., STAR-CCM+)
• Strong communication skills – both verbal and written – with demonstrated experience in a technical environment
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative, research and development environment

Special Preference

• Candidates with an advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Engineering or related technical field (equivalent experience may be accepted)
• Demonstrated experience performing coupled physics modeling and simulation on thermal protection systems (TPS)
• Demonstrated experience developing and executing large scale parameterized modeling studies utilizing Monte Carlo or other applicable optimization methods
• Demonstrated experience working with test engineers to anchor modeling to experimental data
• Demonstrated experience working within an integrated production team to deliver analysis and design artifacts
• Demonstrated experience developing and documenting technical solutions for program proposal efforts