Senior Combustion Engineer: Gas Turbine CFD & Hardware Leader

Siemens Energy; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career growth opportunities

Health and wellness benefits

Paid Time Off

401K with company match

Parental leave

Job summary

Siemens Energy in Orlando seeks a Senior Combustion Engineer to develop and improve combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines. You will evaluate flow distribution, mixing, pressure loss, heat transfer, emissions, and thermoacoustic response, translating results into robust designs.

The role requires a bachelor's in mechanical or aerospace engineering, 5+ years in combustion design, proficiency with CFD tools, and collaboration across design, test, manufacturing, and field teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical or aerospace engineering; master’s/PhD preferred.
• 5+ years' experience in gas turbine combustion design and CFD.
• Experience with reacting/non-reacting CFD and heat transfer.
• Ability to develop models, boundary conditions, and assess mesh sensitivity.

Responsibilities

• Perform CFD and combustion-aerodynamics analyses of reacting and non-reacting flow, fuel-air mixing, pressure loss, emissions behavior, and thermal loading in gas turbine combustion systems.
• Develop and assess combustion hardware concepts using fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, turbomachinery, and mechanical-system integration.
• Use Siemens NX, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Workbench to create models, perform analyses, interpret results, and document conclusions.
• Integrate analytical, validation, and field data to support hardware qualification, risk assessment, root cause analysis, and design improvement.
• Define analysis and validation needs for new or modified combustion hardware and support technical reviews of assumptions, boundary conditions, methods, and results.
• Work with manufacturing, test, field-service, and design teams to resolve combustion-system issues and implement practical hardware solutions.

Skills

Gas turbine combustion design

CFD

Thermal-fluid analysis

Emissions formation

Tech risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's in Mechanical/Aerospace engineering

Master's or PhD preferred

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

STAR-CCM+

ANSYS Workbench

Job description

Siemens Energy in Orlando seeks a Senior Combustion Engineer to develop and improve combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines. You will evaluate flow distribution, mixing, pressure loss, heat transfer, emissions, and thermoacoustic response, translating results into robust designs.

The role requires a bachelor's in mechanical or aerospace engineering, 5+ years in combustion design, proficiency with CFD tools, and collaboration across design, test, manufacturing, and field teams.