Aerospace Engineer
EEOC
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Houston • California, Texas • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $86,900 - $198,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
LinuxPython
About the role
- Support the space client by tackling the challenges of lunar dust contamination of spacecraft and other assets
- Model complex interactions between dust particles, the space environment, and spacecraft
- Develop and use advanced computational modeling tools and techniques
- Develop a comprehensive modeling and analysis framework for the client’s Extravehicular Activity and Human Surface Mobility Program (EHP)
- Characterize the risks that lunar dust poses to the success of a permanent human presence on the moon
- Be responsible for developing new M & S capabilities, model systems and environments of interest, and simulate physical phenomena such as plasma interactions with spacecraft and dust
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience with M & S of physical phenomena or systems
- Experience with rarefied gas dynamics, direct simulation Monte Carlo, space environments effects such as radiation transport, materials outgassing and contamination, and spacecraft charging
- Experience with data processing and statistical techniques
- Experience with CAD and 3D modeling software such as SolidWorks and NX
- Experience with meshing or finite element analysis software such as Ansys, Thermal, and Desktop
- Experience with CFD tools such as STAR-CCM+, Loci-Chem, and Fun3D
- Experience developing software to implement analytical and computational models
- Experience with programming in Fortran, Python, or C++
- Experience working with Linux environments and writing technical documentation
- Ability to work in both a team and independently, and take ownership of assigned tasks
- Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
- Master’s degree in a Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, CS, or Applied Mathematics field
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
- paid leave
- professional development
- tuition assistance
- work-life programs
- dependent care
- recognition awards program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
modeling and simulationrarefied gas dynamicsdirect simulation Monte Carloradiation transportmaterials outgassingcontaminationspacecraft chargingdata processingstatistical techniquesprogramming in Fortran
Soft skills
teamworkindependenceownership of tasks
Certifications
Master’s degree in PhysicsMaster’s degree in Mechanical EngineeringMaster’s degree in Aerospace EngineeringMaster’s degree in Computer ScienceMaster’s degree in Applied MathematicsSecret clearance