CFD Lead: Thermal & Internal Flows for AI-Driven Design

Outrigo; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Potential for international travel

Professional development and growth

Job summary

Outrigo, an industrial deep-tech company, seeks a PhD CFD Engineer to lead the thermal-fluid simulation capability within Morph. You will develop and validate high-fidelity models for internally cooled, additively manufactured components such as regeneratively cooled rocket engine chambers and compact heat exchangers.

The role requires expertise in CFD, heat transfer, and turbulence modelling, with OpenFOAM and at least one commercial code, plus Python automation and Linux HPC experience.

Qualifications

• PhD in Mechanical, Aerospace, Chemical Engineering or closely related field.
• At least 3 years of industrial or post-doctoral CFD experience.
• Expert knowledge of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and turbulence modelling (RANS, k-ω SST, LES).
• Advanced proficiency in OpenFOAM, plus at least one commercial CFD code (e.g., ANSYS Fluent/CFX, STAR-CCM+).
• Strong meshing skills for complex internal geometries (snappyHexMesh, Gmsh, Fluent Meshing).
• Proficiency in Python for automation; Linux and HPC environments.
• Desirable: regeneratively cooled rocket engines, gas turbine cooling, or compact heat exchangers.
• Desirable: additively manufactured flow components and surface roughness effects on transfer.

Responsibilities

• Lead CFD and conjugate heat transfer analysis of internal flows in complex geometries.
• Develop, verify and validate high-fidelity models for turbulent heat transfer and flow distribution.
• Build scripted workflows within Morph's OpenFOAM CFD pipeline for design exploration.
• Collaborate with AI teams to couple CFD with geometry generation and surrogate models.
• Capture effects of laser powder bed fusion on thermal-fluid models and test data.
• Collaborate with structural engineers on thermo-mechanical analysis.
• Define and support experimental validation campaigns and correlate with tests.
• Establish simulation best practices and mentor engineers in thermal-fluid analysis.
• Prepare technical reports and contribute to grants, publications and IP.

Skills

CFD

Heat transfer

RANS modelling

LES modelling

Conjugate heat transfer

OpenFOAM

Python

Linux HPC

Data analysis

Experimental correlation

Education

PhD in Mechanical/Aerospace Eng

Tools

ANSYS Fluent/CFX

Simcenter STAR-CCM+

OpenFOAM

Gmsh

snappyHexMesh

Job description

Outrigo, an industrial deep-tech company, seeks a PhD CFD Engineer to lead the thermal-fluid simulation capability within Morph. You will develop and validate high-fidelity models for internally cooled, additively manufactured components such as regeneratively cooled rocket engine chambers and compact heat exchangers.

The role requires expertise in CFD, heat transfer, and turbulence modelling, with OpenFOAM and at least one commercial code, plus Python automation and Linux HPC experience.