Aerothermal Analysis Engineers

4 weeks ago


Berkshire, United Kingdom AWE PLC Full time

Are you an Analysis Engineer with a primary interest in either high-speed aerodynamics or high-temperature materials?

AWE's ever-growing Aerothermal Team is now recruiting for people with excellent stakeholder engagement skills to conduct analysis of hypersonic re-entry vehicles and support test programmes & code development.

**Role: Aerothermal Analysis Engineers**

**Location**: Reading /Basingstoke area

**Package**: £33,850 - £45,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

AWE **(one of the best 25 big companies to work for in the UK)** offers an attractive array of benefits which include:

- Generous holiday entitlement 270 hours a year (inclusive of Bank Holidays)**plus every other Friday off**:

- Flexible working hours
- Opportunities for Professional Career Development that include funding for the annual membership of a relevant professional body, access to mentors and training
- Market leading contributory pension scheme
- AWE Life Insurance
- Salary sacrifice benefits scheme
- Relocation package available (terms and conditions apply)
- Analysing high-speed vehicles for flight, aerodynamic, aerothermal, and material response performance using a suite of bespoke tools ranging from high fidelity CFD methods to fast-running, empirically based codes
- Understanding the performance of and develop models for high-temperature ablative materials
- Influenceing, supporting and analysing flight and ground test programmes
- Evaluating the on-going development of bespoke analysis tools, and to contribute to validation and verification efforts
- Supporting the technical development of other team members
- Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, including customers, contractors, peers, and the wider analysis team, including face-to-face meetings, writing technical reports, and delivering presentations

**What will you need to be considered?**
- A relevant technical degree
- Knowledge and experience in at least one of the following areas:

- High speed (supersonic/ hypersonic) aerodynamic analysis/ CFD
- High-temperature material response
- Flight and/or re-entry dynamics
- Experimental Aerodynamics
- Toolset development and V&V
- The ability to solve problems in making computational models and methods work
- Sound interpersonal skills, with an ability to interact with staff at all levels and also with other technical disciplines
- The ability to produce and present clear and concise reports and presentations for customers, peers, programme management, and external meetings
- To be meticulous and methodical
- To be highly self-motivated
- Experience of working on Linux (or Unix) and HPCs
- Being conversant in coding/scripting (e.g. Fortran, Python, bash) would be beneficial

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