Job description
We're Hiring: Turbine & Hot Gas Path Aero Engineer Full time | Core team LAT Aerospace | Gas Turbine Engines At LAT Aerospace, we’re building India’s first clean-sheet hybrid-electric STOL aircraft and a next-generation family of gas-turbine engines. We are looking for an engineer who can take ownership of turbine aerodynamics: covering design, CFD, testing support, and hot-section performance.
What you’ll do
- Design, test, and evaluate- Aerodynamic design and analysis of turbine components.
- Mean-Line & Quasi-3D Aerodesign – Use mean-line, through-flow, and blade-to-blade tools to generate first-cut turbine designs.
- High-Fidelity CFD Analysis – Build and execute high-fidelity 3D CFD simulations to assess turbine performance.
- Blade Geometry Optimisation – Perform blade shape optimisation to meet aero and structural targets.
- Hot-Section Interpretation – Understand how combustor exit conditions, pattern factor, and temperature non-uniformity influence turbine life, stresses, and performance.
What we're looking for
- Master’s degree in Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering with focus on turbomachinery, aerodynamics, or thermal sciences - 3+ years of experience in turbine aerodynamics or hot-gas-path work
- Strong understanding of turbomachinery aerodynamics, loss modelling, and flow physics.
- Advanced proficiency in 3D CFD (CFX) for turbomachinery flow analysis and performance evaluation.
- Strong capability in mean-line/throughflow/2D blade analyses
- Experience in blade shape optimization
- Solid foundation in heat transfer , compressible-flow physics, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics.
- Proficient in using CAD software (NX or equivalent). Why LAT?
- Core team opportunity at a high-conviction deep-tech startup
- Build India’s next-generation GTEs - the kind that India has never seen before
- Work in an environment where hardware development moves fast, ownership is high, and engineering matters