Principal Engineer, Combustion Aerodynamics

Hyliion is committed to creating innovative solutions that enable clean, flexible and affordable electricity production. The Company’s primary focus is to develop distributed power generators that can operate on various fuel sources to future-proof against an ever-changing energy economy.

Job Purpose

The Principal Engineer, Combustion Aerodynamics supports the development, integration, and validation of the reactor subsystem within the KARNO generator.  This key role executes the design of products using sound engineering principles and adhering to business standards, practices, procedures, and product/program requirements. This work may include aerodynamic, mechanical, and/or electrical engineering for all products.

Duties and Responsibilities

Qualifications

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications include:

+ Bachelor’s Degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, or Chemical Engineering required.

+ 15 years of work experience in engineering field.

+ Advanced degree in Engineering (Doctoral or Masters) preferred.

+ 5 years in aerospace, power-generation, or industrial heating industry.

+ Experience working with governmental agencies (EPA, CARB, etc.) to plan and conduct certification testing and submit reports – with specific focus on emissions data reporting conventions and standards.

+ Extensive experience in combustion system development, especially with focus on gas-turbine or similar steady-flow combustion architectures.

+ Ability to design and troubleshoot complex aero and combustion systems.

+ Significant experience in emissions testing for combustion system development, with focus on gas analyzers for standard combustion product species.

+ Strong background in lab testing environments including installing, calibrating, and reading various forms of instrumentation for chemical species, pressure, temperature, flow, etc.

+ Experience with clean sheet, conceptual design of combustion systems taking heat output requirements to sizing architecture.

+ Experience with Reactor Flow Networks (e.g. CANTERA or CHEMKIN) to exercise finite-rate chemistry models to complement experimentally-obtained data.

+ Fluency in exercising combustion analysis models (equilibrium chemistry solvers).

+ Experience in fluid/thermal systems design and optimization.

+ Highly collaborative personality with a willingness to learn and adapt involving interaction with adjacent functions to solve complex issues.

+ Ability to effectively and positively communicate verbally and in writing with customers (internal and external), to address their needs promptly and to follow through on commitments.

+ A self-starter with good problem solving and good communication skills, excellent numeracy, and spatial awareness.

+ Willingness to travel: Position may involve travel visiting engineering providers and hardware suppliers (10%).

+ Experience in 3D CAD tools; preferably NX.

+ Experience in CFD such as ANSYS Fluent or CFX.

+ Competency with Microsoft Office Suite.

Role Classification and Working Conditions

This is a salaried, exempt-level position. This position typically works in an office environment; and given the nature of our business is also exposed to operations/warehouses/production environments.

Physical/Other Requirements

Benefits:

Hyliion is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, disability, veteran status.  If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to otherwise participate in the employment selection process, please direct your inquires to Hyliion’s human resources department at HR@hyliion.com.