Modeling & Simulation EngineerLocation: Redstone Arsenal (Huntsville, Alabama)Position Overview:Crossflow Technologies seeks an engineer to support the development, integration, and application of modeling and simulation (M&S) capabilities for a variety of missile systems. This role will focus on integrating disparate engineering models and simulation tools into efficient analytical workflows and developing software to automate simulation setup, execution, and post-processing. The engineer will work across software development using C++ and aerospace engineering disciplines to evaluate vehicle performance throughout flight environments and improve the tools and processes used to perform multidisciplinary analysis.
Key Responsibilities- Integrate, maintain, and enhance M&S tools by connecting standalone engineering models and simulation applications into unified analytical workflows.
- Develop C++ based software, scripts, and automation for simulation setup, execution, data processing, and analysis.
- Develop and maintain pre-processing and post-processing workflows for structural, thermal, and aerothermal models.
- Extract, process, visualize, and interpret simulation results to support engineering assessments and design decisions.
- Identify opportunities to improve the efficiency, repeatability, and robustness of multidisciplinary analysis pipelines.
- Troubleshoot integration, execution, and data-interface issues across engineering models and simulation tools.
- Develop and maintain software using GitLab, version control, code review, testing, documentation, and other software development best practices.
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering teams to integrate trajectory, structural, and other analysis capabilities.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related engineering or technical discipline.
- Strong proficiency in Python, particularly for scientific computing, engineering analysis, scripting, or workflow automation.
- Strong proficiency in C++ base software scripts for modeling and simulation.
- Experience developing or integrating modeling and simulation tools or engineering analysis software.
- Experience automating simulation workflows, including model configuration, execution, and processing of simulation outputs.
- Understanding of aerodynamics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, and aerothermal effects relevant to high-speed flight.
- Experience analyzing engineering or simulation data and communicating results to technical stakeholders.
- Experience using Git/GitLab or comparable configuration-management and collaborative software-development tools.
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues spanning software, simulation models, inputs, outputs, and computational environments.
- Active Secret security clearance
Preferred Qualifications- Experience generating, analyzing, or optimizing hypersonic vehicle trajectories.
- 3-10 years of relevant software development, modeling and simulation, analysis, or related engineering experience.
- Experience with mesh generation and preparation of models for numerical analysis.
- Experience coupling or integrating multidisciplinary engineering models, such as trajectory, aerodynamics, aerothermal, thermal, and structural models.
- Familiarity with scientific Python libraries and numerical methods used for engineering analysis.
- Experience developing pre-processing and post-processing tools for large or complex simulation datasets.
- Experience creating reproducible and automated engineering analysis pipelines.
- Familiarity with high-performance or distributed computing environments used for computational engineering analysis.
