Turbomachinery Cycle Performance Engineer

Valar Atomics; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch and dinner onsite

PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment

Career growth opportunities

Direct collaboration with operators/CE

Job summary

Valar Atomics is hiring a turbomachinery aerodynamics engineer in California to lead cycle performance modeling for a cutting-edge power conversion system. You will work with cross-functional teams to define a high-efficiency, producible cycle design and influence system architecture decisions as an early turbomachinery hire.

This role focuses on developing a thermodynamic model, validating it against results, and driving optimization across components and subsystems with ownership and autonomy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering required.
• 3 years' experience analyzing thermodynamic cycles in a thermodynamic solver (NPSS, Aspen, GateCycle, Flownex, EES, etc.) required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain a thermodynamic model of the power conversion system.
• Aggregate, interpret and integrate the contributions of component owners into the overall cycle model.
• Partner with turbomachinery, secondary flow, and heat exchanger owners to input their component performance into the system model.
• Define instrumentation plans to calibrate the cycle model to tested results.
• Evaluate system level trades to drive the cycle to the optimal business outcome.

Skills

Thermodynamic cycle analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering

Tools

NPSS

Aspen

GateCycle

Flownex

EES

Job description

Valar Atomics is hiring a turbomachinery aerodynamics engineer in California to lead cycle performance modeling for a cutting-edge power conversion system. You will work with cross-functional teams to define a high-efficiency, producible cycle design and influence system architecture decisions as an early turbomachinery hire.

This role focuses on developing a thermodynamic model, validating it against results, and driving optimization across components and subsystems with ownership and autonomy.