Antares Nuclear
Senior Thermal Fluids Analyst
$150K–$190K
Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years performing thermal-fluid analysis.
- Education
- Bachelor's in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or similar technical discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Build and run thermal-fluid models for reactor components and subsystems, providing design guidance and supporting test campaigns to validate performance.
What you'll do
- Analyze designs for pressure drop, heat transfer, and other performance characteristics; advise on sizing, materials, and design optimization.
- Document and communicate analytical results, assumptions, and limitations to internal and external stakeholders.
- Support test planning, instrumentation selection, data review, model validation, and development of internal engineering tools.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or similar technical discipline.
- 5+ years' experience performing thermal-fluid analysis.
- Experience building and running CFD models using commercial codes, including conjugate heat transfer models and compressible equations of state.
- Experience using CAD software and a scripting language to build and maintain tools and calculators.
Nice to have
- Master's in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering or similar technical discipline.
- Familiarity with 1-D fluid network tools, safety-critical qualification or certification, numerical methods, multiphase systems, ASME BPVC Section III Div 5, or FEA.
Pay
$150K – $190K (base salary)
Tools
Fluent, CFX, Star-CCM+, Siemens NX, Python, MatLab, VBA, Flownex
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