Senior Thermal Engineer – Hypersonic Air Vehicles

Immediate need for a talented Senior Thermal Engineer Hypersonic Air Vehicles. This is a 06 Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Costa Mesa CA(Remote). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID:26-30128

Pay Range: $110 - $120/hour. Employee benefits include but are not limited to health insurance (medical dental vision) 401(k) plan and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• The Thermal Engineering teams work is essential to support our rapid innovation cycle and maintain the performance and reliability of advanced defense technologies.
• Thermal Engineers own the full development life cycle from conceptual design through ground testing and flight test analysis ensuring high-performance resilient systems that meet the demands of complex contested environments.
• Thermal design and analysis of unmanned air vehicles at conceptual preliminary and detailed design maturities
• Define thermal system architectures and material selection strategies for vehicles operating in demanding flight environments
• Thermal analysis of flight vehicles using CFD FEA and engineering methods
• Material response modeling under combined thermal and mechanical loads
• Transient thermal analysis for time-varying mission profiles
• Ground test planning execution and analysis in specialized thermal test facilities
• Flight test planning execution and post-flight thermal data analysis
• Use first principles and MATLAB/Python models to inform design decisions
• Collaborate with aerodynamics structures electrical and systems engineers on integrated solutions
• Present thermal status at formal reviews internally and with customers
• Prepare formal documentation (specifications test procedures technical reports)

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• MS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering or Applied Physics with focus on heat transfer and fluid dynamics
• In-depth understanding of heat transfer fluid dynamics and high-temperature environments
• 5 years of experience in aerospace thermal engineering on rocket aircraft or missile programs
• Experience with thermal analysis in high-speed flight regimes
• Thermal analysis experience using CFD (STAR-CCM ANSYS Fluent) and/or FEA thermal solvers
• Experience with thermal-structural coupling
• Ground testing experience with thermal instrumentation and data acquisition
• Strong programming skills in MATLAB Python or similar for tool development
• Experience preparing formal documentation
• CAD experience with SolidWorks or Siemens NX
• Passion for defending the United States and her allies
• Ability to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with material response modeling in extreme thermal environments
• Knowledge of material degradation and surface phenomena under demanding conditions
• Experience with specialized thermal ground test facilities
• Experience with chemical kinetics and finite-rate chemistry modeling
• Flight test experience including instrumentation design and post-flight analysis
• Experience with thermal-structural analysis codes (NASTRAN Abaqus ANSYS Mechanical)
• Material characterization experience at elevated temperatures
• Experience with manufacturing and assembly of thermal systems
• Active U.S. security clearance

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