Computational Engineer (Aerodynamics)
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Occupation Type
Aircraft maintenance and related trades
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship EligibilityIneligible for Sponsorship
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Description
Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Group Overview
The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly capable Computational Engineer w
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas—including airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special mission aviation, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation.
Wherever we operate, we build vertically integrated full stacks of capability—designing, building, and operating turnkey solutions that let customers scale capacity while benefiting from continuous cycles of innovation. With operators and engineers under one roof, we close the gap between lab and field—what we call connecting design with effect.
Metrea’s solutions are built for elegance: effective, efficient, and evolving. This approach enables our partners to do more with less and achieve outsized, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, Metrea has facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe, and beyond.
Group Overview
The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly capable Computational Engineer w
ith strong experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to join our Digital & Synthetic Capability Unit. This role focuses on designing and running CFD studies, automating simulation workflows, developing and improving solvers/analysis tools and generating flight models to support aircraft development. You will also contribute to aircraft certification activities and help enhance our visualization pipelines within Unreal Engine.
The successful candidate will be able to design and run CFD studies in an automated, scalable manner, integrate simulation insights into engineering decision making and support high‑fidelity scientific visualization for simulation and flight model environments.
What You’ll Do
The successful candidate will be able to design and run CFD studies in an automated, scalable manner, integrate simulation insights into engineering decision making and support high‑fidelity scientific visualization for simulation and flight model environments.
What You’ll Do
- Use OpenFOAM and related tools to run external aerodynamics simulations
- Develop scripts, tools, and frameworks to automate end‑to‑end simulation workflows
- Create and improve custom solvers and tools for external aerodynamic simulations
- Perform meshing and CAD‑to‑mesh conversions to prepare geometry for simulation
- Run HPC simulations, including job submission, monitoring, and resource optimization on cluster environments
- Strong background in scientific computing, with experience in C/C++ and Python preferred
- Proficiency in scripting languages for workflow automation
- Hands‑on experience with HPC environments (job schedulers, cluster management, parallelization with MPI)
- Experience with CFD tools (OpenFOAM preferred) and CAD‑to‑mesh workflows
- Strong understanding of numerical methods, optimisation and simulation techniques
- Familiarity with game engine technology for technical visualization
- Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure for compute, data or workflow deployment
- Postgraduate degree (Master’s or PhD) in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related disciplines
- Pass Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
- Private Medical Insurance
- Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
- Electric Car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary sacrificed pension scheme
- Free lunch on office days
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- 30 days annual PTO plus b/h
- Bonus Scheme
- Personal development opportunities
The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
Equal Opportunities Statement
Metrea is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with t
ypical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require. Non-Exempt employees may be required to work over 40 hours per week with approval from the department manager.
Work Location
London
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting
Travel
Occasional
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value, Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes—Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
Work Location
London
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting
Travel
Occasional
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value, Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes—Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.