# Senior Aerothermal Engineer at Inversion Space

- Company: Inversion Space
- What the company does: Making Space a Transportation Layer for Earth. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.inversionspace.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Playa Vista, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $137K to $193K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/inversionspace/jobs/4723746005
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inversion-space-senior-aerothermal-engineer/

## About the role

Every surface of Inversion's reentry vehicles is designed against the aerothermal environment it must survive — and that environment must be known before it can be designed against. As the Senior Aerothermal Environments Engineer, you will develop and database the aerothermal environment around our reentry vehicles, combining high-fidelity CFD, engineering-level methods, and test data into database products that drive vehicle design. In this role, you will:

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Typically, 5+ years of experience in hypersonic, supersonic, reentry, or rocketry aerothermodynamic analysis
- Experience running high-enthalpy flow solvers (US3D, DPLR, LAURA, Loci-CHEM, or similar)
- Experience with handbook and engineering-level heating estimation methods (e.g., Fay-Riddell, Tauber, MINIVER-class tools, or similar correlations)
- Strong fundamentals in hypersonic aerodynamics, boundary layer physics, and convective and radiative heat transfer
- Proficiency in programming languages like Python, Fortran, C++, or MATLAB for analysis tooling and automation

Tags: Reentry