What are the responsibilities and job description for the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Engineer position at JFL Consulting, LLC?
Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Engineer
Primary Place of Performance: Reston, VA
Mandatory Requirements: U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI Clearance
Years of Experience: Mid-Level (5-10 Years)
This position is contingent on contract award (Fall 2025)
Currently is seeking a talented and motivated Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Engineer to join our team focused on supporting a Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) program to solve tough WMD problems for the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). This position will be part of a team to reverse engineer facilities and develop new methodologies, tools and products for deliberate planning and crisis operations in support of full dimensional defeat of aboveground and belowground WMD-related hard targets.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
Duties to Include but not limited to:
Preferred Education and Experience:
Competitive benefits package includes:
About JFL Consulting, LLC
With more than twenty years of securing some of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community’s most critical networks, JFL Consulting, LLC provides advanced network security solutions to a range of US Government and US commercial clients. Our cybersecurity operators are experts at assessing and defending mission-critical data and the networks that facilitate their operation. We are focused on delivering advanced products and industry best practices that meet each customer’s unique requirements. Visit www.jflconsulting.com.
JFL Consulting, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment on any legally recognized basis including, but not limited to: race, religion or creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, status with regard to public assistance or any other protected class under federal, state or local statute. It is also the policy of JFL Consulting, LLC to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Primary Place of Performance: Reston, VA
Mandatory Requirements: U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI Clearance
Years of Experience: Mid-Level (5-10 Years)
This position is contingent on contract award (Fall 2025)
Currently is seeking a talented and motivated Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Engineer to join our team focused on supporting a Counter-Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) program to solve tough WMD problems for the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD). This position will be part of a team to reverse engineer facilities and develop new methodologies, tools and products for deliberate planning and crisis operations in support of full dimensional defeat of aboveground and belowground WMD-related hard targets.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- Applicant will require a minimum of 5 years in modeling and simulation (M&S).
- Have a working knowledge of computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, thermodynamics, turbulence modeling, structural dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, acoustics, chemical reactions, and/or electromagnetics.
- Must have experience working on Unix-based high-performance computing platforms
- Must have experience with multi-physics simulation codes such as ANSYS, OpenFOAM, Sierra, CTH, Peridigm
- Must have experience with geometry manipulation (Solidworks, AutoCAD, Rhino3D) and meshing (ANSYS Meshing, Pointwise, ICEM, Cubit, Capstone)
- Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills. Applicant will be required to produce written technical reports, presentations and give briefings to technical and non-technical personnel.
Duties to Include but not limited to:
- Conduct high-fidelity computational modeling on Unix-based high-performance computing clusters.
- Conduct all needed pre- and post-processing, including geometry creation and manipulation, and meshing.
- Assemble needed material properties (liquid, gaseous, liquid-vapor mixture, and solid) for simulations, to possibly include chemical properties, such as rates of reactions and thermodynamics properties.
- High-fidelity simulations may include computational fluid dynamics, structural dynamics, fluid-structure-interaction, composites, fracture and fragmentation, heat transfer, chemical reactions, combustion and detonation, particle flows, evaporation and condensation.
- Popssibly also build low- and medium-fidelity models of processes and facilities using Matlab/Simulink/Simscape and Python/C/C .
- Support System Engineers in conducting system analysis to understand upstream and downstream effects to industrial processes and other utility systems.
- Support test operations to validate methodologies and tools developed.
- Travel: Up to 5% travel required.
Preferred Education and Experience:
- Possess at least a bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical field.
- Have a working knowledge of other utility systems (cooling, heating, ventilation, industrial water, wastewater, power, inert gas, compressed/instrument air, hydraulic, and/or fuel systems).
- Desired experience, but not required:
- Engineering or utility department for an installation, facility or vessel (i.e. ship’s engine room).
- Nuclear, power production, data centers, chemical, petrochemical or manufacturing facility(s).
- Industrial plant operations and processing operations to include process startup, operations and safety.
- Required Minimum Active DOD TS/SCI Clearance.
- US citizenship and ability to pass extensive background checks.
- Willing and eligible to take polygraph.
Competitive benefits package includes:
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, vision plan for each employee and dependents.
- 401(k) plan retirement plan with 3% company match and vesting from day one.
- Leave policy including 18 vacation days.
- Reimbursement for job-related certifications and training allowances.
About JFL Consulting, LLC
With more than twenty years of securing some of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community’s most critical networks, JFL Consulting, LLC provides advanced network security solutions to a range of US Government and US commercial clients. Our cybersecurity operators are experts at assessing and defending mission-critical data and the networks that facilitate their operation. We are focused on delivering advanced products and industry best practices that meet each customer’s unique requirements. Visit www.jflconsulting.com.
JFL Consulting, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We do not discriminate against any applicant for employment on any legally recognized basis including, but not limited to: race, religion or creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status, status with regard to public assistance or any other protected class under federal, state or local statute. It is also the policy of JFL Consulting, LLC to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
