Aerothermal Engineer
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Whisper Aero
Whisper Aero is empowering a more compelling and connected future by creating cleaner, quieter, and more efficient propulsion solutions.Our Company
Whisper Aero, a leader in air propulsion technology, focuses on delivering cleaner, quieter, and more efficient thrust solutions. Our team, with over a decade of experience in electric propulsion, includes experts from NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and other industry giants. We pride ourselves on a culture of ambition, creativity, and teamwork, constantly seeking innovative minds ready to challenge norms and drive progress in our field.
About the Role
Whisper Aero is seeking a diligent, detail-oriented and hardworking Aero-thermal Engineer familiar with different fidelity heat transfer codes (from network models to conjugate heat transfer CFD codes) to assist with the design of thermal analysis in advanced electric propulsion systems. This role will be focused on developing cooling schemes and carrying out detailed thermal analysis for integrated motor/propulsor problems. It will involve some working knowledge of heat sources in electric motors and power electronics associated with electric propulsors. They will drive key thermodynamic, aero performance, and aero-thermo-structural design decisions and regularly work closely with our Flight Sciences Lead, Flight Sciences team, Chief Engineer, and Technical Project Leads. In this role, you will work with the team to identify thermal constraints for future propulsors, manage cooling schemes for propulsors in different thrust classes, develop thermal codes, provide pre-test predictions, and code validation.
What You’ll Do
- Participate in and present during reviews, provide feedback to the design, flight sciences teams, and technical project managers.
- Use thermodynamic network analysis, back-of-envelope calculations to evaluate electric motor heating during select mission profile points.
- Design cooling schemes and assess scalability related to motors with different power requirements.
- Perform design optimization trades involving aerodynamic performance, heat transfer, and weight.
- Carry out high-fidelity CFD and conjugate heat transfer simulations.
- Provide testing support for model validation, support design projects, and help with writing proposals.
- Participate in design review meetings.
- Provide support to customers for issues that arise in product integration
- Write technical reports that are accurate and comprehensive to be peer-reviewed by other team members.
Basic Qualifications
- US Citizenship / Green Card Status
- Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, or Computational Sciences technical discipline with typically a minimum of 4 years of related experience; or a graduate degree Masters degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 2 years of related experience; or PhD in similar disciplines.
- Familiarity with heat transfer codes and frameworks.
- CFD experience with commercial codes like Ansys, StarCCM+
- Experience with a 3D CAD package such as Solidworks, NX, CATIA V5, or Fusion 360
- Expertise in Python programming, Matlab, and Julia preferred.
Bonus Qualifications
- Experience with liquid cooling and two-phase applications
- Exposure to electric motors/power electronics, especially as related to heat sources
- Experience with electric machines and motors, hybrid electric powertrains
- Experience with Multidisciplinary Design Optimization methods and/or Machine Learning Surrogate Models, Digital Twins
- Familiarity with data management, revision, and version control: Git
Benefits:
- Top-tier Benefits: 100% paid Medical, dental, and vision for employees, 75% paid for dependents
- PTO & Federal Holidays: Starting at four weeks of paid time off for vacation, sick, and personal days
- Competitive Salary: Value-based compensation, plus enjoy Tennessee’s no-income-tax life
- End of Year Bonuses: For eligible employees
- We always have beverages and snacks available to energize you throughout the day, with paid team meals based on office demands.
- 401(k)
- Relocation Assistance
- Professional Development Stipend
Whisper Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Whisper Aero also participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each applicant's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: CAD Data management Engineering Git Julia Machine Learning Mathematics Matlab PhD Python Security Testing
Perks/benefits: Career development Competitive pay Health care Relocation support Salary bonus Snacks / Drinks
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open Research Scientist jobs
- Open Data Science Manager jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open BI Analyst jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Engineer jobs
- Open Lead Data Analyst jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Data Science Intern jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open Software Engineer, Machine Learning jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Marketing Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Engineer III jobs
- Open Junior Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Analyst II jobs
- Open Data Engineering Manager jobs
- Open ETL Developer jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open Tableau-related jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open Excel-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Data pipelines-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open Generative AI-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open DevOps-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open Git-related jobs
- Open Docker-related jobs