Senior Aerothermal Analyst – Hypersonic Reentry (On-site)

Outpost Technologies Corporation; California; On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with equity

Comprehensive healthcare

401(k) with company match

PTO and holidays

Daily lunch stipend

Pet friendly office

Company events

Job summary

Outpost Technologies Corporation is seeking a Senior Aerothermal Analysis Engineer to own the aerothermal environments for CarryAll, driving high-fidelity CFD, engineering estimates, and test data integration.

You will collaborate with GNC, TPS, structures, and mechanism engineers to define heat shield sizing, TPS margins, and trajectory limits, ensuring reliability across multiple flights in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in hypersonic, supersonic, reentry, or rocketry aerothermodynamic analysis.
• Experience running high-enthalpy flow solvers (FUN3D, US3D, DPLR or similar).
• Experience with parallel scientific computing (e.g., MPI) and large-scale CFD campaign automation.
• Experience with heating estimation methods (Fay-Riddell, Tauber, MINIVER) or similar.
• Strong fundamentals in hypersonic aerodynamics, boundary layer physics, and radiative heat transfer.
• Proficiency in Python, Fortran, C++, or MATLAB for analysis tooling.
• Ability to work in fast-paced, iterative startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Own aerothermal environment definition for CarryAll across its flight envelope.
• Set up and run high-enthalpy CFD at key trajectory points.
• Bridge CFD points with fast engineering heating methods.
• Combine CFD, estimates, and test results into a single environment product with uncertainties.
• Collaborate with GNC, TPS, structures, and mechanism engineers to define TPS sizing and trajectory limits.
• Add solver capability with custom subroutines for specific boundary conditions.
• Validate methods against analytical cases, arc-jet tests, and flight data.
• Automate environment generation and ensure updates pace with design iterations.
• Manage and maintain compute resources.

Skills

Python

Fortran

C++

MATLAB

HPC / parallel computing

Education

Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering BS

Tools

FUN3D

US3D

DPLR

MPI

Pointwise

FIAT

CHAR

Job description

Outpost Technologies Corporation is seeking a Senior Aerothermal Analysis Engineer to own the aerothermal environments for CarryAll, driving high-fidelity CFD, engineering estimates, and test data integration.

You will collaborate with GNC, TPS, structures, and mechanism engineers to define heat shield sizing, TPS margins, and trajectory limits, ensuring reliability across multiple flights in a fast-paced startup environment.