Research Engineer

2 months ago


San Antonio, Texas, United States Southwest Research Institute Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Research Engineer to join our team at Southwest Research Institute. As a Research Engineer, you will be responsible for performing fundamental and applied research in the development of advanced fatigue crack growth lifing methods for material and structural integrity assessments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and implement numerical algorithms for structural integrity and life prediction in user-friendly software.
  • Ensure accuracy, precision, and consistency of predictions implemented within high-criticality commercial software.
  • Solve fracture mechanics problems using solid continuum mechanics and finite element analysis.
  • Build large solution ensembles in Abaqus using Python scripting capabilities.
  • Utilize principles from computational geometry to discretize components.
  • Write reports and manuals to document results and provide guidance for software use.
  • Communicate effectively with colleagues, collaborators, and customers to resolve user issues.
  • Prepare proposals, reports, and technical papers.
  • Manage tasks and projects to completion within scope, budget, and schedule constraints within a team environment.
  • Work independently with relatively little supervision and function effectively as a part of project teams.
  • Provide specialist support to ensure material integrity and structural performance for projects focused on advanced applications in various sectors.
  • Qualify materials and certify components using modeling, simulation, and other tools per best practices.
Requirements
  • Master's or PhD in Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Civil Engineering, or similar engineering degree.
  • 0-5 years of experience in fracture mechanics, fatigue, finite element analysis, solid continuum mechanics, probabilistic methods, mechanical behavior of engineering metals, materials science, and software development.
  • Experience with ABAQUS, Fortran, Python, and formal software development processes is highly desirable.
  • Experience with recent computational integrity techniques in materials science, including crystal plasticity, fatigue initiation mechanisms, reduced-order modeling, and physics-informed AI/ML.
  • Experience with recent advances in computational mechanics targeted towards structural applications, including contact algorithms, constitutive modeling, multi-physics, meshing algorithms, enriched methods, and automatic crack growth.
  • A valid/clear driver's license is required.


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