Turbine Durability Engineer

Cyient Limited; East Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyient Limited in the United States (East Hartford, CT) seeks a Senior Hot Section Durability Engineer to lead durability programs for turbine and combustor components, ensuring time-on-wing, repairability, and HSRI targets while balancing performance and cost. You will drive design reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with manufacturing and engineering teams to accelerate durability validation.

The role spans concept to field support, including advanced analyses of cooling schemes,

Qualifications

• Lead durability strategy for turbine and combustor components and HSRI targets.
• Design and assess turbine airfoils, BOAS, combustor liners with cooling and coatings.
• Develop and execute mechanical and time-dependent damage analyses, CHT and related simulations.
• Evaluate durability impact of complex cores, cooling geometries and manufacturing processes.
• Conduct root-cause investigations using returned/failed hardware.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in design reviews, safety boards, and program milestones.
• Mentor junior engineers on durability methods and best practices.
• Support manufacturing and supply chain by understanding process capabilities and variability.

Skills

Durability strategy for turbine/combus

Turbine airfoils, BOAS, combustor lin

CHT and aerothermal-structural sim

1D thermal models

Root-cause investigations

Job description

The Senior Hot Section Durability Engineer is a technical leader responsible for ensuring combustor and turbine gas-path components meet time-on-wing, repairability, and Hot Section Refurbishment Interval (HSRI) requirements while maintaining performance, fuel efficiency, manufacturability, and cost goals. This role spans the full product life cycle—from early concept design and optimization through development engine testing, certification, field support, and aftermarket engineering.

Hot Section Durability Engineers design and assess advanced high-temperature hardware such as turbine airfoils, blade outer air seals (BOAS), combustor liner panels, and cast heat exchangers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead durability strategy for turbine and combustor components, ensuring compliance with time-on-wing, repairability, and HSRI targets.
• Responsible for design and assessment of turbine airfoils, BOAS, combustor liners including internal cooling schemes, film cooling technologies, thermal barrier coatings, and advanced materials.
• Develop and execute analyses of varying complexity, including:
  • Mechanical, time-dependent damage predictions (creep, oxidation, TBC spallation, TMF).
  • Full conjugate heat transfer (CHT) and coupled aerothermal-structural simulations.
  • Reduced-order empirical models and 1D thermal models for rapid design iteration.
• Evaluate the durability impact of complex internal cores, cooling geometries, and advanced manufacturing processes.
• Conduct and lead root-cause investigations using new, returned, and repaired hardware to understand field performance, distress progression, and failure mechanisms.
• Provide technical leadership in design reviews, safety boards, and program milestones; mentor junior engineers on durability methods and best practices.
• Support manufacturing and supply chain by understanding process capabilities, anticipated variability, and implications for durability and quality.
• Develop and refine internal tools, models, and methodologies to accelerate durability assessments and improve prediction fidelity.

The Senior Hot Section Durability Engineer is a technical leader responsible for ensuring combustor and turbine gas-path components meet time-on-wing, repairability, and Hot Section Refurbishment Interval (HSRI) requirements while maintaining performance, fuel efficiency, manufacturability, and cost goals. This role spans the full product life cycle—from early concept design and optimization through development engine testing, certification, field support, and aftermarket engineering.

Hot Section Durability Engineers design and assess advanced high-temperature hardware such as turbine airfoils, blade outer air seals (BOAS), combustor liner panels, and cast heat exchangers.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead durability strategy for turbine and combustor components, ensuring compliance with time-on-wing, repairability, and HSRI targets.
• Responsible for design and assessment of turbine airfoils, BOAS, combustor liners including internal cooling schemes, film cooling technologies, thermal barrier coatings, and advanced materials.
• Develop and execute