May 2027 New Graduate Engineer, Vehicle Performance

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Analyze the aerodynamic, aerothermal, thermal, and mission-level performance of aircraft, missiles, and other autonomous defense platforms.
• Develop analytical models and simulation tools to evaluate vehicle performance across operating conditions and mission profiles.
• Perform aerodynamic and thermal analyses using computational, reduced-order, and first-principles methods.
• Support vehicle sizing, configuration development, trajectory analysis, and multidisciplinary design trade studies.
• Evaluate the effects of geometry, mass properties, propulsion, aerodynamics, thermal constraints, and control requirements on overall vehicle performance.
• Build and improve MDAO frameworks that connect multiple engineering disciplines and accelerate design-space exploration.
• Use Python, MATLAB, or similar tools to automate analyses, process data, and communicate technical results.
• Support CFD, conjugate heat transfer, thermal network, or other physics-based modeling activities.

Job requirements

• Bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical field.
• Graduating with a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree by summer 2027.
• Technical experience gained through internships, research, academic projects, student teams, or professional roles.
• Foundational understanding of fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, flight mechanics, numerical methods, or vehicle performance.
• Experience using MATLAB, Python, or a similar technical computing language.
• Experience developing analytical models, running simulations, or analyzing engineering data.
• Ability to communicate technical results and work effectively across engineering disciplines.
• Ability to work on-site in Huntington Beach, California.