Principal Validation Engineer

Location:

Exa Headquarters, Burlington, MA, USA

Responsibilities:

A Principal Validation Engineer is sought to be responsible for performing and coordinating development and validation studies for advanced physics development.   The PVE will be responsible for investigating new developments, validating, and documenting the results.  The results must then be communicated effectively to customers, as well as other groups within the organization. Additional responsibilities include testing existing products as well as early prototypes of new products, setting up fluid simulation cases, running the cases, collecting and analyzing results, carrying out technical research, writing-up analysis, and presenting results. The PVE will play a key role in new product development, interacting closely with the physics and software development teams to transition product prototypes through all of the development stages into product release. This position also requires modest customer interaction to provide assistance and support in using PowerFLOW for engineering development, beta testing and general product release.

 

Daily tasks would include:

• Carefully define, run, analyze and document cases that test new developments in physics and software, and benchmark the results against known quantities.
• Work with Physics development team to drive improvements and implement new versions of the development code, and discover potential issues. 
• Support physics related issues that arise from customers, as well as from other sectors of the organization.
• Liaise between customers, physics, software, and application management teams to arrive at meaningful solutions for issues involving both product and development code.
• Analyze and diagnose issues related to physics models, software implementation, and usage for a wide range of physical cases involving academic and industrial flows and report on the results.

 Minimum Experience:

• At least 5 years post-doctoral research or industrial experience with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), preferably with aerospace or automotive applications. 
• Prior experience with turbulent, compressible or transonic flows is a strong plus.

Education:

PhD in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or equivalent, that is focused on CFD with a preference for focus in Industrial, high Reynolds number, turbulent flows.

 

Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills with strengths in both oral and written form.
• Thorough understanding of fluid dynamics and fluids analysis.  Experience in the following fields is a strong plus:
  • Turbulence modeling
  • Compressible/Transonic flows
  • Acoustics
• Strong problem-solving skills, energetic disposition
• Strong computer skills, especially UNIX. Experience with Python, and scripting is a plus

Contact:

For immediate consideration, please send your resume with Job Code 10004 in the subject line to physicsjobs@exa.com or:

Exa Corporation
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Burlington, MA 01803
1-781-564-0299 FAX

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