Application Engineer - Computational Fluid Dynamics

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Job Title: Application Engineer - CFD.

Location: Brussels, Belgium.

Reports to: Sr Application Engineering Manager

Job Overview:

The Application Engineer – CFD role offers an opportunity to join a collaborative and technically driven team, where your expertise in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is used to help customers succeed in advanced simulation projects across aerospace, automotive, turbomachinery, industrial and marine industries. Using Cadence’s suite of CFD tools, you will work with customers to develop effective simulation workflows, benchmark product capabilities across a range of flow regimes and physical phenomena, share best practices, and collaborate closely with Sales and Product teams to support customer success.

Job Responsibilities:

• Apply Cadence simulation technologies to solve industry problems across turbomachinery, automotive, aerospace, marine and other industry verticals.
• Partner with customers to develop, refine and support simulation workflows aligned to their technical objectives.
• Perform customer benchmarks to validate Cadence software for industrial applications, including correlation with published test data.
• Collaborate with customers to develop and validate CFD workflows and solutions that meet or exceed their requirements.
• Contribute to advancing the industrial application of simulation technologies, including participation in joint industry or government research initiatives where relevant.
• Communicate customer requirements and feedback to Sales, R&D and Marketing teams to support product and service improvement.
• Participate in customer meetings related to benchmarks, technical support and related activities, virtually or in person as required.
• Work with Cadence R&D teams to test and validate new product capabilities.
• Publish technical papers and contribute to associated marketing collateral highlighting industry solutions and product advantages.
• Create technical presentations and reports documenting project activities, findings and customer feedback.
• Develop knowledge-sharing materials to support customer education, including articles, videos and technical presentations.
• Provide technical support to customers across a range of CFD applications.
• Deliver customer and internal training sessions, virtually or in person, as required.

Job Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in mechanical, Aerospace or Marine Engineering preferred.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present technical information clearly in both written and verbal formats.
• Experience with CFD mesh generation and solver tools applied to aerospace, automotive, industrial, turbomachinery or marine use cases (experience typically gained over 1–3 years).
• Experience using scripting languages such as Python.
• Customer-focused mindset with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to organise work, manage priorities and maintain attention to detail.
• Ability to collaborate effectively within cross-functional teams and contribute constructively in a developing environment.
• Languages: Fluent in English; French is an advantage.

Additional Skills/Preferences:                     

• Theoretical background in combustion and/or exposure to industrial combustion applications is an added plus

Travel: Occasional travel across Europe may be required, depending on customer and project activities.

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