Modeling & Simulation Engineer — FEA & CFD

Andersen Corporation; Bayport (MN); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Profit sharing

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off and holidays

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Andersen Corporation is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer to provide advanced NLFEA/CFD analysis for our R&D and innovation teams. You will work on nonlinear mechanics, fluid-structure interactions, and fatigue phenomena across product development projects.

You will collaborate with engineers to define boundary conditions, material properties, and CAD geometry, validate models with experiments, and continuously improve simulation methods using ANSYS, Abaqus, OpenFOAM and related tools.

Qualifications

• B.S. in Engineering, Physics or Mathematics with emphasis on applied mechanics.
• 2+ years of engineering experience.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to write and debug code and/or user subroutine (C, C++, Fortran, Visual Basic).
• Proficiency with Microsoft products (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams).
• Some experience with FEA.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers on boundary conditions, material properties, and CAD geometry for setup of simulations.
• Adjust and debug meshing parameters, boundary conditions, and solver settings to balance accuracy with convergence time.
• Perform FEA analysis to understand critical product and process performance during the development process.
• Collaborate with engineers and technicians on model validation using an appropriate real-world experiment.
• Lead technical discussions regarding simulation results and brainstorm future work.
• Document simulation results and provide engineering recommendations to internal engineering teams via presentations and written reports.
• Develop and improve existing simulation techniques with purchase of external software, new code or user subroutines, and automation of virtual workflow.
• Stay up to date with simulation software and tools including ANYSYS platforms, Dassault Systems platforms, CalculiX, and OpenFoam.
• Travel as needed within the USA (5-10%).

Skills

Strong communication

Coding in C/C++, Fortran, VB

FEA experience

Analytical thinking

Education

B.S. in Engineering/Physics/Math

Tools

ANSYS

Polyflow

Abaqus CAE

OpenFOAM

CalculiX

Job description

Andersen Corporation is seeking a Modeling and Simulation Engineer to provide advanced NLFEA/CFD analysis for our R&D and innovation teams. You will work on nonlinear mechanics, fluid-structure interactions, and fatigue phenomena across product development projects.

You will collaborate with engineers to define boundary conditions, material properties, and CAD geometry, validate models with experiments, and continuously improve simulation methods using ANSYS, Abaqus, OpenFOAM and related tools.