Aeronautical Engineer - Hypersonic Aerodynamics

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Join us in shaping a new era in space and find a career that's built for you.

In this role you will be supporting the Orion Aerodynamics analysis team as an Aeronautical Engineer - Hypersonic Aerodynamics where you will work on the development of a sophisticated state-of-the-art aerodynamics product in a world class Integrated Product Development environment.

As an Aero Engineer you will integrate all flight regimes including hypersonic, rocket and reentry capsule technology into the next generation Human Space Flight system operated by NASA.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Performing a variety of aerodynamics analyses related to rocket systems with a particular emphasis on hypersonics and high altitude rarefied gas environments possibly including plume analysis.
Creating technical memos.
Providing input to data packages to support peer and customer reviews.
Presenting analysis results to internal engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel during technical exchange meetings. Knowledge of aerodynamic forces and moments.
Knowledge of hypersonics and high altitude rarefied gas environments possibly including plume analysis.
Familiarity with creating technical memos.
Presenting analysis results. Bachelors degree in Physics, Aerospace, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline and/or equivalent education and experience
Hypersonic Aero/Thermal experience
DSMC analysis
Plume analysis
CFD Meshing Pointwise preferred
CFD experience Fluent, GASP, Cart3D, CBAERO, Star-CCM+ preferred
CFD Post-processing
Large dataset post-processing experience
Software development / programming experience (Fortran, C, Python, Matlab, etc)
Integrated system level modeling and simulation
Linux experience
MS Office experience

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