Mainspring Energy: Staff CFD Modeling Engineer

Mainspring Energy makes fuel-flexible linear generators. It needs a Staff CFD Modeling Engineer on its system modeling and simulation team. The role covers detailed fluid dynamic and thermochemical analysis to guide generator design, and links CFD to lower-order system models. It is a hybrid job at the Menlo Park headquarters.

What you'll do

• Run commercial CFD software to analyse transient gas flow, chemical kinetics and heat transfer
• Work with mechanical engineers to turn SolidWorks CAD into fluid volumes, then build and debug meshes
• Choose boundary conditions and domain models, and manage solver runs on local hardware and the cloud (AWS/GCP)
• Write test plans to validate CFD results, oversee the tests on the generator, and compare test data with simulations
• Build lower-order models for system-level simulation
• Write C++ and Python code to automate CFD runs and couple lower-order models to CFD

Who can apply

• Strong CFD skills and the ability to break complex multidimensional flow into fundamental behaviour
• Ability to explain CFD principles and the reasons behind solver and model settings
• Programming skill in C++ and Python for automation
• Willingness to be on site at Menlo Park for testing, troubleshooting and manufacturing support

How to apply

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Official page: jobs.lever.co/mainspringenergy/8bcc0fb4-676b-4cd6-8e08-8c7eb3631e7c/apply