What are the responsibilities and job description for the Aero-Thermal Analyst III+ (U.S. Citizen) position at Karman Space & Defense?
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The aerothermal analyst’s role will apply engineering principles to support the design, development, and final verification across a variety of aerospace and defense development programs. The aerothermal analyst will lead the analysis, design, and optimization of aerodynamic and thermal systems for varied defense platforms. This role requires expertise in aerodynamics, thermal modeling, and materials to ensure performance and reliability in extreme environments. Other common tasks include using FEA to model heat transfer, modelling pyrotechnic & pneumatic gas dynamics, and multi-body kinematics of deployable systems. The analyst will often work independently within a small, fast-moving team. Excellent organization, collaboration, and communication skills are essential parts of the job.
Pay Band: $110,000 - $165,000 DOE
Compensation & Benefits
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Karman is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis (“protected class”) including, but not limited to race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability; citizenship status; uniform servicemember status; or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.
The aerothermal analyst’s role will apply engineering principles to support the design, development, and final verification across a variety of aerospace and defense development programs. The aerothermal analyst will lead the analysis, design, and optimization of aerodynamic and thermal systems for varied defense platforms. This role requires expertise in aerodynamics, thermal modeling, and materials to ensure performance and reliability in extreme environments. Other common tasks include using FEA to model heat transfer, modelling pyrotechnic & pneumatic gas dynamics, and multi-body kinematics of deployable systems. The analyst will often work independently within a small, fast-moving team. Excellent organization, collaboration, and communication skills are essential parts of the job.
Pay Band: $110,000 - $165,000 DOE
Compensation & Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life
- 401k
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Paid Holidays
- Employee Referral Program
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
- Applies theories of physics to engineering problems to quantify and predict system performance, support concept of operations (CONOPS) decisions, and support derivation of subsystem requirements.
- Develop and validate computational models for aerodynamic and aerothermal loads.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to integrate aero/thermal designs with structural, propulsion, and guidance systems.
- Support wind tunnel testing, thermal testing, and data analysis to validate designs and refine models.
- Develop and validate ablative material response models using test and literature data.
- Lead trade studies to evaluate design alternatives for performance, manufacturability, and cost-effectiveness.
- Provide technical documentation, reports, and presentations to support design reviews and customer interactions.
- BS, MS, or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent
- Experience with high-temperature materials and ablative thermal protection systems.
- Experience with thermal protection system sizing & analysis using standard tools like FIAT, CHAR, MINIVER, or LAURA.
- Exposure to aerothermal wind tunnel and flight testing and instrumentation.
- Experience conducting high speed numerical simulations (CFD) of aerospace vehicles using tools such as, but not limited to: Ansys Fluent, Star-CCM , DPLR/LAURA, US3D, FUN3D, CBAERO, or similar.
- Experience with grid preparation software and post processing tools such as PointWise, GridPro, Tecplot, Paraview or similar.
- Experience conducting wind tunnel tests at academic, government, and private wind tunnels.
- Experience developing high fidelity aerodynamic models for use in 6DOF simulations.
- Experience conducting multidisciplinary analysis and optimization (MDAO) of aerospace vehicles.
- Experience with computer programming languages such as MATLAB, Octave, Python, VBA, C , C#, or Julia for automation of analysis tasks such as using a program’s API, plotting result data, or performing coupled trade studies.
- Strong written and verbal communication, technical report writing skills, organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Must be a U.S. citizen and able to obtain a DoD SECRET clearance.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities. The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
Karman is committed to equal employment opportunity. We will not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis (“protected class”) including, but not limited to race; color; religion; genetic information; national origin; sex; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; age; disability; citizenship status; uniform servicemember status; or any other protected class under federal, state, or local law. Our management is dedicated to ensuring the fulfillment of this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.
Salary : $110,000 - $165,000
