Job Description

About the job

Essential Responsibilities:  

• Aerodynamic design and analysis of launch vehicle using low to high fidelity tools to estimate vehicle aerodynamic characteristics which includes external flow simulations, stage separation analysis.  
• Establish robust analysis methodologies using CFD coupled with in-house 6DOF model to study the safe stage separation of the launch vehicle using open source and commercial CFD tools. 
• Work with vehicle configuration team on various space launch vehicle development programs. 
• Strong system level thinking and ability to give design suggestion based on simulation results.  
• Produce high quality documentation of work assigned.  

Preferred skills and experience:  

• Aerospace/Mechanical Engineer with minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience.  
• Strong fundamental understanding of aerodynamics and heat transfer for space vehicle applications.  
• Experience in store/stage separation analysis using opensource or commercial CFD tools. 
• Experience in opensource CFD tools like Open Foam or SU2 for external aerodynamics applications is desirable. 
• Hands on experience in complete CFD process (Pre-processing, Solver setup and Post processing) for external aerodynamics and heat transfer applications.  
• Experience in unsteady CFD – URANS and LES modelling    
• Extremely good at creating water-tight geometry and high-quality hybrid or structured meshes for external aerodynamics flow simulations using ANSYS-ICEMCFD or any meshing software.  
• Familiar with computational fluid dynamics software (CFD): Preferably ANSYS-Fluent/CFD or CFD++.  
• Proficient in any one of the programming languages such as MATLAB/Python/Shell to automate the work process and post processed data.  
• Experience in Linux environment with shell scripting.  
• Experience in aeroacoustics is desirable 
• Experience in wind tunnel experiments is desirable. 
• Experience in CAD modelling using Solid works or any design tool is desirable.  
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, rapidly changing work environment. 

Skills Required

• Python
• Linux
• Aerospace
• Wind Tunnel
• CFD
• CAD
• Thermodynamics
• MATLAB
• SolidWorks
• Ansys
• Mechanical Integration