Shield AI is seeking a Principal Fuel Systems Engineer to lead architecture, development, and validation of fuel systems for advanced AI-powered aircraft. You’ll own the full lifecycle of fuel system design—from concept through flight testing—while mentoring others and driving technical excellence across our growing air vehicle portfolio. You’ll tackle high-impact challenges and optimizing aircraft center of gravity.
This role is instrumental in advancing nuclear thermal-hydraulic capabilities, requiring a thermal-hydraulic engineer skilled in core and fuel thermal-hydraulic analysis and methods development. Key responsibilities include the development and optimization of fuel design and performance, and advancing thermal-hydraulic methodologies. The Thermal & Fluids Analysis team ensures the accuracy and reliability of analytical tools and methods that support reactor performance and safety evaluations.
We are seeking a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Consultant with a strong academic foundation in subsurface modeling (oil & gas or geothermal). This flexible consulting role is ideal for a PhD student or postdoc interested in applying their research expertise in a real-world, industry-relevant setting. The consultant will adapt and extend existing CFD models to simulate geothermal well conditions, focusing on pressure and temperature fields, and the physics of downhole heat exchangers.