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You will apply your skills to contribute to the development of company objectives and principles, aiming to achieve goals with a focus on solid rocket propulsion. You will employ advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts, to complete CFD and thermal analysis for the SRM systems. You will contribute to the creation of innovative principles, ideas, and analytical methods. You will provide solutions to highly complex technical challenges and sensitive issues that demand a significant degree of ingenuity, creativity, and innovation. The challenges you face will often be unique, and your solutions may set a precedent for future decisions.\nEssential Functions:\nLead complex projects and work with general oversight.\n\nCommunicate effectively with internal (program office, chief engineers, etc.) and external customers.\n\nDrive the design from conceptual phase through detailed design.\n\nComplete and be familiar with hand calculation methods to perform initial sizing and verifications.\n\nPerform detailed thermal analysis using proprietary codes based on aerothermal tools such as ACE, gasket, and CMA to provide temperature predictions and ablation assessment of SRM insulators and other hardware components.\n\nExecute CFD analysis with commercial codes such as ANSYS Fluent to support thermal analysis and SRM design.\n\nDuties include test support for pre and post-test analysis of static fired motors for model validation.\n\nProvide rocket motor test instrumentation definition and data processing for production, bench, full engine qualification, etc.\n\nAbility to obtain a US secret security clearance.\n\nTravel: 10%.\n\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior thermal design experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior thermal design experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior thermal design experience.\n\nPreferred Additional Skills:\nBachelor of Science in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering is preferred.\n\nActive US secret security clearance is desired.\n\nStrong skills in the application and use of heat transfer and fluid dynamics applied to propulsion systems.\n\nUnderstanding of the function and design of solid rocket motors.\n\nExperience coding Fortran as well as scripting with Python or Matlab.\n\nStrong skills in the application and use of heat transfer and fluid dynamics applied to propulsion systems.\n\nUnderstanding of the function and design of solid rocket motors is a plus.\n\nHands on experience with the manufacturing of solid rocket motors is a plus.\n\nSoftware skills: CEA, CMA, Thermal Desktop, Fluent, CFD++ is desired.\nAbility to parse large amounts of data for analysis.\n\nIn compliance with pay transparency requirements, the salary range for California, salary range for this role is $88,500 $164,500. 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