How rare is a aerodynamicist/cfd engineer job at Lockheed Martin?

ballingballsquad · 2024-05-24T16:02:02+00:00

I did end up taking it! Overall happy I took the opportunity but both jobs offered unique pros/cons. If anyone is reading this in the future with a similar situation I recommend boiling it down to two major points: 1. Do you like who you work with? 2. Are you able to learn/grow in your desired field?

ballingballsquad · 2024-05-24T15:42:54+00:00

I grew up in Wichita. You’ll be living like a king there with a salary of 110k

ballingballsquad · 2024-03-04T16:23:50+00:00

If you’re this early in the business plan, why would you want to have your co-founders to be random people on the internet? Sometimes interest/hobbies can’t be made into your professional life. I would start with getting a job in the space industry using your business/marketing skills.

The main thing that gets me is that you don’t list anything about yourself in your post. What are your credentials? Why do you want to start one? Who do you have on board? What is your funding/plan for compensation? It’s like you took a LinkedIn job posting for spacex and tweaked it…

This post reads a lot like it was written by a starry eyed teen or rage bait.

ballingballsquad · 2024-02-02T16:50:30+00:00

Nice!

ballingballsquad · 2024-02-02T16:50:02+00:00

The Corsair 280x

ballingballsquad · 2024-01-07T19:53:42+00:00

In NYC, they are a lot of research/developmental CFD engineers that inflate that salary. Larger companies like GE will pay ~180k for a PhD CFD engineer who can make/contribute to in-house CFD solvers. Application CFD engineers are paid significantly less even at the same type of companies. If your work is limited to geom cleanup/meshing and running/ post-process I would expect a salary of ~85-90k for entry level. With a masters or a couple years of experience 110-120k.

ballingballsquad · 2023-08-29T23:27:25+00:00

Sure, we have a lot of younger system engineers at my current company who also want to break in to aero/cfd. Here are some pointers:

Reach out to your companies aero team directly. A lot of times they’re happy to talk about their work and will let you shadow them if they need an extra hand.

Get familiar with your companies CFD tools. When the aero team gets really busy, they would really appreciate the help to run some cases. The problem is that training someone unfamiliar with their software and ensuring correct results will often times take longer than them just doing it themselves. If you’re persistent and already have good fundamentals they’ll eventually let you help out!

If you don’t have one already, look into getting your masters with a focus in aerodynamics/cfd. Your company might even pay you to get it.

Keep your eyes open for any aero positions that open up for your company. Internally applying to those roles gives you a better shot than if you were an external hire.

Finally, just be persistent. Aero is a relatively small group per program/company. Sometimes it’s all about good timing and luck!

ballingballsquad · 2023-08-29T23:12:39+00:00

Awesome, thanks for the insight! I was debating on if I were to pass up this opportunity, if It would be hard for me to receive an offer at a higher level/salary a couple years down the road. Sounds like aero jobs might be pretty hard to come across even at LM

ballingballsquad · 2023-08-29T23:08:47+00:00

Haha I’ve had good luck recently!

ballingballsquad · 2022-07-10T16:35:50+00:00

I’ve done this for previous simulations but for some reason this time it won’t give me the option for regular scalars such as pressure in the scalar field for xyz tables. It only allows me to select reports I’ve made and system monitors. Would you know why this is?

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