Senior Analytical Design Engineer

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Who we are:

Ceres is leading the way in clean energy innovation, pioneering advancements in electrolysis for green hydrogen production and fuel cells for future power solutions. With our dynamic licensing model, we've built powerful partnerships with major multinational companies like Bosch, Doosan, Shell, and Weichai and our solid oxide platform is transforming energy systems, delivering high-efficiency green hydrogen to decarbonise some of the most emissions-heavy industries including steelmaking, and future fuels.

At Ceres, we foster a workplace driven by passion and purpose. We support our team to think ambitiously, collaborate creatively and confront complex challenges directly. Innovation is at the core of who we are, and we strive to push the boundaries of what's possible with technology.

Purpose of the role

This role sits within the department of Modelling and Digitalisation, consisting of highly skilled and dedicated modelling and simulation engineers, data scientists, and data engineers. The department does advanced multi-domain computational modelling, specialist data analysis, and creates bespoke data products and cloud data platform solutions to support all core areas of the business, with a focus on accelerating the company's product and technology development. The scope of the modelling work for this role is versatile, ranging from creating reduced order physics-based models to using commercial multi-physics modelling tools to solve challenging problems for a wide variety of internal and customer facing projects. Whilst the role focuses primarily on structural and finite-element analysis (FEA) based computational modelling work, a versatile computational modelling background is highly beneficial.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for delivering high quality and verified modelling tools, modelling output and analysis to accelerate Ceres' core product development.
• Responsible for ensuring that new design elements are de-risked, optimised, and robust to variations in operation over the product lifetime - primarily in the structural and FEA domain.
• Where required, take responsibility for technical leadership of a modelling team to deliver work packages to an internal or customer facing project.
• Collaborate and work with a wide range of internal and customer facing projects to solve business-critical problems.
• Present modelling results in a clear and consistent manner to internal and external project teams.
• Support IP creation through modelling - explore new design ideas for Ceres' products.
• Support the roll-out of modelling tools to different parts of the organisation; deliver training and advice on the use of tools, interpretation of results, modelling approaches & best practices.
• Contribute to the long-term strategy and the future direction of the department.

Knowledge and skills required for the role:

• Degree qualified in a relevant discipline to a Bachelor or Master level (e.g. Mechanical-, Automotive-, Aerospace-Engineering, Chemical & Process Engineering, or another STEM related field)
• Several years of industrial experience in computational modelling especially in the FEA domain using tools such as Ansys, COMSOL, Star CCM, Abaqus - a wider modelling domain background and experience is highly beneficial
• Deep understanding of analytical design and verification methods, and limitations of computational models
• Ability to create physics-based models from first principles and solve problems using these (e.g. using programming languages such as MATLAB or Python)
• Excellent communicator: capable of communicating and building and maintaining effective relationships at all levels
• Fast learner of new domain knowledge, proactive, self-starter able to work with minimal instructions in a fast-paced environment, not afraid to fail and try again