Staff Aerothermal CFD Methods Engineer
Inversion · Playa Vista, California, United States
Posted about a month ago · $161,000-$221,000
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 44 days Inversion's roles stay open a median of 55 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 89% of Inversion's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Inversion
- high 59 stale, 0 reposted of 76 open
- Hiring momentum
- 86 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-27
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Inversion's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Inversion.
About this role
As a Staff Aerothermal CFD Methods Engineer at Inversion, you will focus on developing and enhancing computational tools for analyzing the aerothermal environments of reentry vehicles. Your responsibilities will include extending high enthalpy flow solvers, modeling high-temperature gas dynamics, and developing multi-phase flow capabilities. You will also mentor team members and ensure that new tools are reliable and well-documented.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
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What you need
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or equivalent experience in a related field
- Typically, 9+ years of experience developing CFD methods and solver capabilities
- Experience writing, extending or modifying high-enthalpy CFD solvers
- Experience modeling high-temperature gas dynamics and chemistry, including thermochemical non-equilibrium
- Experience modeling multi-phase flows with an emphasis on droplet interactions
- Strong fundamentals in numerical methods for compressible flow, including finite volume discretization, shock capturing, and implicit solution methods
Nice to have
- PhD in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related field
- Familiarity with both Lagrangian and Eulerian approaches to particle tracking
- Experience with Fortran, particularly in the context of extending existing solver codebases
- Direct experience with US3D, including extension through user-defined subroutines
- Experience with plasma simulation for weakly ionized flows and/or experience with electromagnetic simulation
Worth weighing
- Position requires in-office presence in Playa Vista, CA
- No specific mention of additional benefits or perks in the posting
- Role involves a significant amount of prototyping and rapid iteration, which may imply a fast-paced and potentially high-pressure environment
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Listed by Inversion on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-27. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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