CAD Engineer for Computational Physical Sciences

3 weeks ago

Dayton, United States ARA Full time

Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) in Dayton, OH is seeking an independently motivated and detail-oriented engineer to create CAD models and prepare high quality surface and volumetric meshes/grids for a variety of computational physics software packages. The unique and strict requirements of each computational package require different modeling and meshing approaches for each problem. As such, a successful candidate must be willing to work closely with a team of computational scientists and engineers to understand the requirements of each package, and preferably learn to run some analyses.

Specific Duties Include:

  • Accept CAD models in multiple formats from a variety of outside sources
  • Prepare incoming models for analysis by doing some or all of the following:
    • Defeaturing
    • Surface healing
    • Boolean operations
    • Reconstruction of missing or poor-quality components
  • Generate high quality meshes using multiple meshing programs based on unique requirements of different computational methods
  • Write scripts to speed the process of generating meshes of many different densities for a single geometry
  • Understand how CAD and mesh quality and attributes affect the ability of individual computational physics packages to compute correct results
  • Occasionally reverse engineer CAD components by laser scanning or approximating components based on photographs or CT scans
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's (or equivalent) with 4+ years' experience
  • 4 years' experience with CAD
  • Functional experience at least one of the following CAD/meshing software packages: Solidworks, Capstone (CREATE-Genesis), CUBIT (Sandia National Labs), Rhinoceros 3D, CATIA, Hypermesh, AutoCAD, Patran, NASTRAN, NX (Siemens), Creo (PTC)
  • Ability to obtain a security clearance
Highly Desired Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, physics, computer science, or related discipline
  • Active security clearance
  • Knowledge of or eagerness to learn computational analysis, scripting, and other related skills


COMPANY INFORMATION:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2,200 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership spawns greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company's success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, "Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit" sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.

Applicants must apply at www.careers.ara.com for the CAD Engineer for Computational Physical Sciences position, Job Code: CADEN008285.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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