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This role spans the full product life cycle-from early concept design and optimization through development engine testing, certification, field support, and aftermarket engineering.\nHot Section Durability Engineers design and assess advanced high-temperature hardware such as turbine airfoils, blade outer air seals (BOAS), combustor liner panels, and cast heat exchangers.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead durability strategy for turbine and combustor components, ensuring compliance with time-on-wing, repairability, and HSRI targets.\nResponsible for design and assessment of turbine airfoils, BOAS, combustor liners including internal cooling schemes, film cooling technologies, thermal barrier coatings, and advanced materials.\nDevelop and execute analyses of varying complexity, including: Mechanical, time-dependent damage predictions (creep, oxidation, TBC spallation, TMF).\n Full conjugate heat transfer (CHT) and coupled aerothermal-structural simulations.\nReduced-order empirical models and 1D thermal models for rapid design iteration.\n\nEvaluate the durability impact of complex internal cores, cooling geometries, and advanced manufacturing processes.\nConduct and lead root-cause investigations using new, returned, and repaired hardware to understand field performance, distress progression, and failure mechanisms.\nProvide technical leadership in design reviews, safety boards, and program milestones; 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