Job Description

Job Title: Thermal Analysis Engineer (Mechanical Engineer II)

Location: Sunnyvale, California

Global Edge is an international staffing firm connecting projects worldwide with the industry’s most talented project professionals. We work with high level technical and commercial personnel across multiple industries including Oil and Gas, Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure, Automotive and Motorsports, IT, Marine, Mining, and more. With offices strategically located worldwide, Global Edge is known for the highest level of delivery for our clients and contractors.

What does this role look like?

Our client is seeking a Mechanical Engineer to join the Missile Flight Sciences team in Sunnyvale, CA! This position will have the exciting opportunity support the Aerothermal team, and the successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Performing thermal analyses on missile subsystem-level hardware & avionics packages for the FBM D5LE2 program
• Ownership of computational, physics-based modeling, simulations, and results
• Correlate model results to subsystem & package requirements and support risk mitigation
• Work and interact with multiple engineering fields across multiple sites
• Present key findings and results to internal and external customers & stakeholder
• Provide recommendations to support peer and customer reviews
• Leverage thermal analysis expertise to support key program milestone reviews
• Provide documentation and recommendations to data packages to support key discussions, present analysis data to engineering teams, customer technical representatives, and Program Office personnel at technical interchange meetings and program milestone design reviews

Basic Qualifications:

• Prior work experience in one or more of the following topics: thermodynamics, heat transfer, aero heating, material properties, or computer programming
• Prior educational or work experience with heating and cooling analysis
• Experience analyzing thermal systems and subsystem-level components, particularly electronic/avionic packages under operating environments and providing cooling/insulation recommendations
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance; US citizenship is required

Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in the following topics: thermodynamic analysis, heat transfer analysis, aeroheating analysis, material properties & characterization, and computer programming (Matlab, Python, Fortran)
• Strong mathematical, analytic, and data processing skills
• Experience with any of the following software packages: NX Thermal (Preferred), Thermal Desktop, SINDA, TSS, Abaqus
• Knowledge or experience with testing & instrumentation including test procedure development, instrumentation definition, test direction, and post-test model correlation
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, including MS Office proficiency
• Experience with modern collaboration tools, such as Jira and Confluence
• Active Top Secret clearance

Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

Clearance Level: Top Secret

Schedule for this Position: 9x80 every other Friday off

Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in most major metropolitan areas in California, Massachusetts, and New York is $80,600 - $139,840. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. The Client considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer.

Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays.

This position is incentive plan eligible.

Global Edge Group LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Global Edge Group, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need

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