Founding Aerospace CFD Engineer - Onsite in SF + Equity

UniversalAGI; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with equity

In-person first culture — 5 days in-­a

Monthly commute stipend

Job summary

UniversalAGI seeks a founding Aerospace Simulation Engineer to build AI-driven physics models from subsonic to hypersonic regimes. You’ll work with the CEO and founding team to address real pain points like preprocessing, meshing, and parameter sweeps, shaping a product at the intersection of CFD and AI.

You will collaborate directly with leadership to drive technical strategy, develop scalable simulations, and deliver benchmark datasets for validation with customers and internal AI teams.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of industry hands-on aerospace CFD experience.
• Proficient with Star-CCM+ as primary solver.
• Experience across the flow regime spectrum: subsonic to hypersonic.
• Strong background in heat transfer, thermal analysis and CHT.
• Deep understanding of fluid mechanics, compressible and incompressible flow, meshing.

Responsibilities

• Design, preprocess, mesh, simulate, and post-process aerodynamics and thermal simulations.
• Develop data pipelines to support hundreds or thousands of configurations.
• Collaborate with AI team to bridge CFD and ML models.
• Engage with clients to define benchmarks and validation workflows.
• Generate high-quality simulation data to improve foundation models.
• Advise on flow physics nuances that matter to model accuracy.

Skills

Strong communicator

Execution velocity

Attention to detail

Startup mindset

Customer obsession

Team player

Education

Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

Star-CCM+

OpenFOAM

Python

Java

Job description

UniversalAGI seeks a founding Aerospace Simulation Engineer to build AI-driven physics models from subsonic to hypersonic regimes. You’ll work with the CEO and founding team to address real pain points like preprocessing, meshing, and parameter sweeps, shaping a product at the intersection of CFD and AI.

You will collaborate directly with leadership to drive technical strategy, develop scalable simulations, and deliver benchmark datasets for validation with customers and internal AI teams.