**Description**

The Southwest Division (SWD) of Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is seeking a **Staff FEA Engineer** to join our Concept Development Group (CDG) with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) codes such as ANSYS ®, LS-DYNA®, CFX ®, FLUENT ®. You’ll be a part of a team that develops in-depth technical assessments, analysis and model creation for Department of Defense (DoD) weapon programs. The successful candidate will assist in the creation and analysis of high-fidelity simulations while creating customer facing briefings. The position requires technical support, documentation and presentation of the modeling and simulation outputs to the program team both internal and external.

**Responsibilities** :

+ Execute strategies for solving complex and nationally important problems with the assistance of senior engineers and independently
+ Construct explicit finite element meshes and models
+ Conduct finite element analyses of challenging d...