Aerodynamics Expert

Responsibilities

• Solve and validate aerodynamic and fluid-dynamics problems.
• Translate physical requirements into computational models and solver-ready cases.
• Create or modify geometries, computational domains, and meshes.
• Define appropriate initial conditions, boundary conditions, fluid properties, and solver settings.
• Run CFD and aerodynamic-analysis workflows using command-line-accessible or programmatic tools.
• Use Python to automate preprocessing, simulation execution, parameter sweeps, postprocessing, and validation.
• Analyze pressure, velocity, forces, moments, lift, drag, pressure loss, and other relevant aerodynamic outputs.
• Diagnose problems involving mesh quality, convergence, numerical stability, turbulence modeling, and boundary conditions.
• Perform mesh-independence studies, sanity checks, and comparisons against analytical, experimental, or reference results.
• Review AI-generated engineering solutions and identify incorrect assumptions, invalid configurations, and physically unrealistic outputs.
• Develop clear, reproducible reference solutions and objective verification criteria.

Skills

Requirements

• MS or PhD in Aerospace Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering with an aerodynamics, fluid dynamics, or thermofluids specialization, or a BS in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering with at least 1–2 years of aerodynamics-specific professional or research experience.
• Strong understanding of fluid mechanics and applied aerodynamics.
• Experience formulating and executing CFD or aerodynamic analyses.
• Practical proficiency with Python.
• Experience with at least one engineering tool or library accessible through a CLI, scripting interface, configuration files, or programmatic API.
• Ability to select and justify modeling assumptions, boundary conditions, mesh strategies, and solver settings.
• Ability to diagnose non-convergence, unstable solutions, incorrect results, and physically invalid outputs.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical reasoning and engineering trade-offs.
• Experience limited exclusively to graphical user interfaces is not sufficient.
• Ability to commit approximately 15 hours per week.

Benefits

• Global, fully remote contractor opportunity.
• Compensation of $80–$130 per hour based on qualifying output.
• Flexible schedule of approximately 15 hours per week.
• Ability to choose working hours and days, including weekends if desired.
• Opportunity to work on advanced aerodynamics and computational fluid dynamics problems.
• Opportunity to apply Python and programmatic engineering tools to next-generation AI training.
• Selected experts may begin their first task within 24–48 hours after completing onboarding.