Aerothermal Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Aerothermal Engineer
Job Description

Seeking a talented Aerothermal Engineer to join a growing team of engineers, technicians, and scientists supporting a diverse customer set to solve complex technical challenges. As a member of the Advanced Materials team, the successful candidate will support material, component, and system development activities for hypersonic and other flight vehicle systems.

Responsibilities

• Generate aerothermal boundary conditions for vehicle analysis.
• Assess material response, such as ablation and decomposition.
• Generate and analyze vehicle trajectories.
• Perform survivability analysis and establish operational bounds.
• Design important components and subsystems that enable vehicle performance.
• Generate derived requirements for materials and components that inform manufacturing and integration activities.

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Secret DoD Clearance or the ability to obtain one.
• Experience supporting research and development activities.
• Demonstrated experience developing thermal boundary conditions from flight trajectory data.
• Experience performing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis using commercial software tools such as STAR-CCM+.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in a technical environment.
• Self-motivated and effective in a fast-paced, collaborative research and development environment.
• Experience with thermal protection systems.

• An advanced degree (MS or PhD) in Engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience performing coupled physics modeling and simulation on thermal protection systems (TPS).
• Experience developing and executing large scale parameterized modeling studies utilizing Monte Carlo or other applicable optimization methods.
• Experience working with test engineers to anchor modeling to experimental data.
• Experience working within an integrated production team to deliver analysis and design artifacts.
• Experience developing and documenting technical solutions for program proposal efforts.

This position requires onsite work due to security requirements. The work schedule is from 8 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday, located in a research park. The team consists of half employees from ATS and half from the prime contractor.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Huntsville, AL.

The pay range for this position is $48.00 - $95.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a fully onsite position in Huntsville,AL.

This position is anticipated to close on Jul 7, 2026.

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