Research Engineer - Numerical simulation in damage & fracture mechanics

at  Cenaero

NUMERICAL SIMULATION IN DAMAGE & FRACTURE MECHANICS

Cenaero, located in Gosselies (Belgium), is a private non-profit applied research center providing to companies involved in a technology innovation process numerical simulation methods and tools to invent and design more competitive products. Our ambition is to be internationally recognized as a technology leader in modeling and numerical simulation, to be a strategic partner of large global industries as well as a real support to regional companies including innovative SMEs.
Cenaero provides expertise and engineering services in multidisciplinary simulation, design, and optimization in the fields of both mechanics (including fluid, structure, thermal, and acoustics) and electro-magnetics, manufacturing of metallic and composite structures as well as in analysis of in-service behavior of complex systems and life prediction. It also provides software through its massively parallel multi-physics platform Argo, its manufacturing process simulation and crack propagation platform Morfeo and its design space exploration and optimization platform Minamo. Cenaero operates the Tier-1 Walloon supercomputing infrastructure, named Lucia, of a capacity close to 4 Pflops on a mixed CPU and GPU architecture.
To support the expanding research activities in damage & fracture mechanics, Cenaero is currently looking for a research engineer (M/F). This permanent position is available immediately.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Hold a PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering or related disciplines.
• Have a solid background in:
• Computational mechanics, in particular Damage and Fracture mechanics.
• Fatigue of materials (metals, composites, concrete), including multi-scale approaches.
• Numerical methods (FEM; X-FEM), mesh regularization methods for damage mechanics.
• Demonstrate substantial experience (either academic or industrial) with:
• Different pre- and post-processing tools for structural mechanics.
• Large-scale simulations in an HPC context.
• Scripting and programming (Python, Linux shell…).
• Have excellent analytical skills and a solution-oriented thinking capacity.
• Be fluent in English with effective communication skills (both written and spoken).
• Be a team player yet have a proactive and autonomous attitude.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• Numerical simulations to set-up an experimental campaign.
• Experience in the development of numerical methods for computational mechanics:
• (eXtended) Finite Element Method.
• C++ programming language.
• Fluency in French.

Please refer the Job description for details