Aeroelasticity- Staff Analyst

Job Title: Aeroelasticity- Staff Analyst Location: Brisbane , CA Pay range: $140,000/yr $67.31/hr Shift: 1st Shift Zip Code: 94005 Job Type: Contract-to-Hire or Direct Hire Start Date: ASAP Keywords: #Brisbanejobs; #Aeroelasticityjobs; #INDREG Job Description: Location: San Francisco/Hybrid Employment Type: Contractor full-time, convertible to salaried full-time. Scope & Ownership The Aeroelasticity SME (Staff, standout) owns blade flutter and forced response across transonic compressor blades and power-turbine blades. The Aerodynamics Analyst (Analyst level) owns compressor blade (mid/last) CFD/analysis and secondary fluid-systems CFD. For a strong enough candidate the Aeroelasticity SME may double as the transonic-blade aerodynamic RE. Crossover: aeroelasticity↔aero↔structures. Minimum Education

• Bachelor"s in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering
• Master"s or PhD strongly preferred (PhD typical for the SME)

Experience

• SME: 6-8 years of turbomachinery aeromechanics (flutter, forced response, mistuning)
• Analyst: 4+ years of aerodynamic CFD; or a relevant PhD plus ~2 years

Skill Requirements

• Unsteady CFD; flutter and forced-response methods; FSI
• Structural dynamics; reduced-order and mistuning models
• ANSYS; Python/Matlab

Responsibilities

• Interface with Responsible Engineers to provide inputs for design, generate predictions for candidate designs, and ensure that REs have a clear understanding of the physical phenomena they are dealing with
• Prepare, run, and post-process relevant simulation models including FEA, CFD, and Heat Transfer as applicable
• Analyze test, qualification, and field data in collaboration with REs to qualify hardware and maintain fleet reliability
• Drive simplicity into the Parallax analysis stack by developing simplified and reduced-order models that conservatively capture physical phenomena at the minimum level of complexity that enables functional hardware

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