Senior Combustion Engineer (Gas Turbines)

Location: Orlando, Florida, United States; hybrid remote/office. Travel up to 20%.

Company

hirify.global develops energy technologies focused on reliable power generation, decarbonization, modernization, and digitalization.

What you will do

• Develop and improve combustion-system hardware for utility-scale gas turbines.
• Perform reacting and non-reacting CFD and combustion-aerodynamics analyses covering fuel-air mixing, pressure loss, emissions, thermal loading, and flow behavior.
• Use Siemens NX, STAR-CCM+, ANSYS Workbench, Teamcenter, or comparable engineering tools to build models, analyze results, and document conclusions.
• Integrate analytical, validation, and field data to support hardware qualification, technical risk assessment, root cause analysis, and design improvement.
• Define analysis and validation requirements for new or modified combustion hardware and support technical reviews.
• Collaborate with design, manufacturing, test, and field-service organizations to resolve combustion-system issues.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, or a related discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in gas turbine combustion design, combustion aerodynamics, CFD, thermal-fluid analysis, testing, or validation.
• Working knowledge of combustion, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, heat transfer, combustion dynamics, thermoacoustics, and emissions formation.
• Ability to develop computational models, define boundary conditions, assess mesh and model sensitivity, evaluate numerical results, and identify uncertainty and limitations.
• Experience applying analysis results to hardware design, qualification, failure investigation, root cause analysis, or technical risk assessment.
• Ability to work in a hybrid office/remote arrangement in Orlando, Florida, United States.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or Ph.D.
• Experience with F-Class, G-Class, or HL-Class gas turbines.

Culture & Benefits

• Career growth and development opportunities.
• Company-paid health and wellness benefits.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match.
• Family-building benefits and parental leave.