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Principal Engineer - Turbomachinery Secondary Flow

Essential Responsibilities:

You will lead teams that conceptualize, develop and evaluate technologies that are required to improve the performance of secondary flow systems in GE’s jet engines and gas turbines. You will be expected to set vision for new components to improve performance, while also establishing new modeling methodologies and experiments to increase the accuracy of our designs and predictions.

As a Turbomachinery Secondary Flow Principal Engineer you will:

• Provide senior technical expertise and vision in the field of secondary flow systems in modern gas turbines; including, but not limited to: cavity flows, leakage paths, interactions between leakage flows and the hot gas path, bore pumping, and all aspects of cooling flow delivery;
• Guide and implement numerical simulations of the secondary flows in conjunction with the hot gas path, with the goal of improving the accuracy, speed, and ease of use of our numerical methods; and with the goal of developing new secondary flow features in gas turbines and jet engines that improve performance and reliability;
• Model secondary flow systems using commercial engineering analysis tools, or by developing state-of-the-art computational heat transfer methods;
• Drive a culture of validation by proposing and advocating for experimental campaigns, and insisting on using high quality experimental data to validate all new numerical methods;
• Drive strong collaborations with our Aero and Mechanical teams, and across our global research organizations;
• Build strong networks with technologists and leaders at GE businesses;
• Collaborate with the GE Businesses to implement inventions and improvements;
• Act as GRC technical focal for Energy and Aviation design teams to connect advanced analysis methods to the design environment;
• Build technology collaborations with universities, government agencies, national labs and other companies;
• Mentor early-career researchers.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related disciplines with at least 8 years of relevant experience; or a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering or related disciplines with at least 15 years of relevant experience;
• In-depth knowledge of fluid dynamics and heat transfer;
• Industrial experience in jet engines and/or gas turbines;
• Hands-on experience with contemporary heat transfer and fluid dynamics computational techniques, including RANS, unsteady RANS, LES, DNS, meshless CFD methods, and 1D flow networks;
• Hands-on experience with sophisticated experimental campaigns for secondary flow measurements, including velocities, flow rates, temperatures, and heat transfer coefficients;
• Strong strategic focus & ability to influence organizations;
• Demonstrated ability to investigate, model and provide critical insight into complex physical phenomena;
• Demonstrated project leadership experience, including successful track record of completing deliverables on schedule and under budget;
• Experience in driving new ideas from concept to productization;
• Strong environmental, health and safety ethics;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Can-do attitude;
• Team-work & commitment;
• Fluency in English.

Desired Characteristics:

• Basic German
• At least 15 years of experience in gas turbine heat transfer;
• Strong record of peer reviewed journal publications;
• International reputation in the heat transfer research community;
• Clear evidence of innovation and creativity, including a strong patent record;
• Excellent work ethic, capable of working well in broad areas with diverse teams;
• Experience working in teams and creating innovative technology solutions;
• Expertise in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methods, experience in optimization, probabilistic design;
• Exceptional passion for science and technology.

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