Senior Combustion Engineer – CFD & Turbine Hardware

Siemens Energy, Inc.; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness benefits

Paid time off

401K with company match

Parental leave

Career growth

Job summary

Siemens Energy, Inc. seeks a Senior Combustion Engineer to develop and improve combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines.

You will evaluate flow distribution, mixing, emissions, and thermoacoustic response, translating results into robust designs and validation plans for F-Class, G-Class, and HL-Class units. Collaborate with design, test, manufacturing, and field teams, perform CFD analyses using NX, STAR-CCM+, and ANSYS Workbench, and travel up to 20%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in gas turbine combustion design and CFD.
• Experience with reacting/non-reacting CFD, heat transfer, and emissions.
• Ability to develop models, define boundary conditions, and interpret results.
• Experience applying results to hardware design and risk assessment.
• Willing to travel up to 20%.

Responsibilities

• Perform CFD and combustion-aerodynamics analyses to evaluate flow, mixing, emissions, and thermal loading in gas turbine combustion systems.
• Develop and assess combustion hardware concepts using fluids, thermodynamics, heat transfer, turbomachinery, and mechanical integration principles.
• Use Siemens NX, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Workbench to create models, perform analyses, and document conclusions.
• Integrate analytical, validation, and field data to support hardware qualification and risk assessment.
• Define analysis and validation needs for new or modified combustion hardware and support technical reviews.
• Collaborate with manufacturing, test, field-service, and design teams to resolve combustion-system issues and implement practical hardware solutions.

Skills

CFD

Combustion design

Gas turbine

Thermofluid analysis

Technical communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Master's or Ph.D. preferred

Tools

Siemens NX

STAR-CCM+

ANSYS Workbench

Teamcenter

Job description

Siemens Energy, Inc. seeks a Senior Combustion Engineer to develop and improve combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines.

You will evaluate flow distribution, mixing, emissions, and thermoacoustic response, translating results into robust designs and validation plans for F-Class, G-Class, and HL-Class units. Collaborate with design, test, manufacturing, and field teams, perform CFD analyses using NX, STAR-CCM+, and ANSYS Workbench, and travel up to 20%.