Cycle Performance Engineer: Turbomachinery & Power

Valar Atomics; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership in a rapidly growing,

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch and dinner onsite

Generous PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment with >

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a turbomachinery aerodynamics engineer to advance power generation capabilities. You will own cycle-performance modeling and influence system architecture as an early team member, collaborating with cross-functional owners to refine the overall cycle design.

You will help define instrumentation, calibrate models to test data, and drive system-level trades to deliver a high-efficiency, producible solution with ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 3 years experience in analyzing thermodynamic cycles in a thermodynamic solver (NPSS, Aspen, GateCycle, Flownex, EES, etc.).
• Experience with modeling closed cycles and turbomachinery is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a thermodynamic model of the power conversion system.
• Aggregate, interpret and integrate the contributions of component owners into the overall cycle model.
• Partner with turbomachinery, secondary flow, and heat exchanger owners to input their component performance into the system model.
• Define instrumentation plans to calibrate the cycle model to tested results.
• Evaluate system level trades to drive the cycle to the optimal business outcome.

Skills

Thermodynamic cycle analysis

Thermodynamic solvers (NPSS, Aspen, Go

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Master's in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

NPSS

Aspen

GateCycle

Flownex

EES

Job description

Valar Atomics is seeking a turbomachinery aerodynamics engineer to advance power generation capabilities. You will own cycle-performance modeling and influence system architecture as an early team member, collaborating with cross-functional owners to refine the overall cycle design.

You will help define instrumentation, calibrate models to test data, and drive system-level trades to deliver a high-efficiency, producible solution with ownership and impact.