Senior Principal Steam Turbine Aerodynamic Engineer
Leonardo DRS
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Fitchburg • Massachusetts • United States
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Salary
💰 $99,740 - $159,028 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Serve as the subject matter expert for aerodynamic design of the flow paths for steam turbines.
- Influence the shaping of nozzle partitions and blade (bucket) profiles to enable optimal, stable flow.
- Provide direct contributor work for the aerodynamic design considerations inclusive of: Nozzles and bucket cascades 3D optimized latter stages buckets with high degrees of reaction Exhaust plenums Valves/Inlet flow passages Seals and Packing Leakage
- Balance the optimal aerodynamic design with other working disciplines: Compromise between aero performance and mechanical engineering’s requirements informed by stress analysis Compromise between aero performance and acoustic engineer’s constraints
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related technical field with a minimum of 5 years of experience
- Experience in the design of flow paths of turbines or turbo machinery for compressible fluid flow in turbo machinery, preferably turbines.
- Experience with nozzle and blade profile design
- Experience with twisted, tapered 3-d profile design
- Experience with overall steam path shaping
- Expertise in compressible fluid flow analysis and lumped parameter/bulk flow models (potential flow solutions).
- Proficiency in commercial RANS CFD software such as: Ansys: Blade Modeler, Turbo Grid, CFX Ansys Fluent
- Ability to execute CFD analysis for other compressible fluid flow applications (e.g., cooling air within generators, motors, and other rotating machinery and power electronic cabinets).
- Experience with Ansys Fluent Suite
- Experience with parameterized models to conduct aero/mechanical trade studies efficiently.
- Exposure to Navy Nuclear applications / defense industry product lines.
Benefits
- comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- employer matching 401(k) retirement plan
- paid time off including vacation, holidays, and sick leave (including ant state-mandated paid sick leave)
- parental leave benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- professional development support
- life and disability insurance coverage
- annual performance-based bonuses
- equity awards
- overtime pay (for non-exempt employees as applicable)
- flexible work schedules with our 9/80 program
- competitive vacation
- health/emergency leave
- community service hours
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Hard Skills & Tools
aerodynamic designcompressible fluid flow analysisnozzle designblade profile design3D profile designsteam path shapingCFD analysisparameterized modelsaero/mechanical trade studies