Engineer
Talascend is currently seeking an Engineer for a contract opportunity with our client in Phoenix, Arizona.
Overview
This is an outstanding opportunity for an engineer with gas turbine engine experience to join the performance & operability team. The individual must be an expert in steady state and transient physics and capable of building, debugging, refining, and maintaining NPSS system thermal models.
Responsibilities
- Build, debug, refine, and maintain steady state and transient thermal models using NPSS (Numerical Propulsion System Simulation)
- Develop NPSS customer models
- Foster productive knowledge transfer of NPSS modeling techniques
- Perform requirements analysis & requirements decomposition
- Communicate effectively to leadership, customers, and peers including presentations and technical reports
- Work collaboratively across cross-functional disciplines and teams
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as the sciences, technology, engineering
- 7 years of experience with turbine engine performance and operability modeling and analysis
Requirements
- Expert understanding of gas turbine engine steady state and transient thermodynamics and physics
- Highly skilled and experienced with building, debugging, and refining NPSS engine cycle models
- Productive mentoring skills that result in technical growth, particularly with NPSS modeling
- Experience in MBSE environments and connecting NPSS models to MBSE tools such as Cameo
- Professional verbal & written communication skills; adept in presenting to upper leadership and customers
- Ability to collaborate seamlessly with diverse and global teams
- Self-motivated, able to work with little supervision and take the initiative to get things done
- Adapt quickly and effectively to changing priorities and program needs
- Manage a variety of complicated tasks simultaneously
- Proven track record of solving complex engineering problems
- Applicants must be a U.S Citizen
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
Talascend is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.