Turbomachinery Cycle Performance Engineer | High-Impact

Valar Atomics Inc.; New Mexico; On-site; USD 140,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity ownership in a rapidly growing

Comprehensive medical benefits

Unlimited PTO

Free daily lunch and dinner onsite

PPE stipend

High-impact startup environment

Job summary

Valar Atomics is seeking a turbomachinery aerodynamics engineer to join the turbomachinery team and advance power generation capability. You will develop and maintain a thermodynamic model of the power conversion system, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate component performance into the system model.

You will influence design decisions on system architecture as an early hire, with opportunities to shape the cycle design in a high-impact startup environment, including equity

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering.
• 3 years of experience analyzing thermodynamic cycles in a thermodynamic solver (NPSS, Aspen, GateCycle, Flownex, EES, etc.).
• Master's degree in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering (preferred).
• Experience with modeling closed cycles (preferred).
• Test experience with turbomachinery (preferred).
• Experience with supercritical CO2 (preferred).

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 modeling

Cycle analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Startup environment

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 seeking a turbomachinery aerodynamics engineer to join the turbomachinery team and advance power generation capability. You will develop and maintain a thermodynamic model of the power conversion system, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate component performance into the system model.

You will influence design decisions on system architecture as an early hire, with opportunities to shape the cycle design in a high-impact startup environment, including equity