Technical Specialist, Vehicle Systems Modeling

The role

You will define modeling methods and lead CFD and coupled physical-system modeling across multiple vehicle domains. You will connect models to instrumented test data to influence vehicle-efficiency, architecture, and performance decisions.

What you will do

• Align hardware, software, controls, test, and program stakeholders
• Review critical evidence and mentor engineers
• Present decision-ready recommendations
• Define modeling methods, fidelity, assumptions, uncertainty, and sign-off criteria
• Lead CFD and thermal-fluid simulations for HVAC, cooling, aerodynamic, and other vehicle systems
• Develop and integrate mechanical, electrical, and thermal models
• Build reusable pre-processing, parameter-study, optimization, post-processing, version-control, and regression workflows
• Partner with test teams on instrumentation and experiments
• Correlate models to physical data and quantify uncertainty

Required qualifications

• Advanced hands-on capability with commercial CFD plus system-modeling and data-analysis tools
• Proven technical leadership of model development, instrumented testing, model-to-test correlation, and cross-functional engineering decisions
• Deep expertise in thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, numerical methods, and physics-based modeling
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Thermal Sciences, or in a related technical discipline
• 8+ years of related experience with a bachelor's degree
• 6+ years with a master's degree
• 3+ years with a PhD

Nice to have

• Experience and passion for hands-on work
• Electric-vehicle modeling experience across batteries, drive units, inverters, charging, chassis, cooling, HVAC, or controls
• Experience with ANSYS Fluent, Star-CCM+, OpenFOAM, reduced-order models, plant models, or coupled multidomain simulations using tools such as GT-SUITE, Simulink, AMESim, Python, or MATLAB
• Experience with vehicle instrumentation, data acquisition, CAN data, test automation, and model correlation
• Experience with Git, automated regression, reusable modeling standards, optimization, or high-performance-computing workflows

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life and disability coverage
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Salaried/exempt employees accrue up to 160 hours paid time off
• Hourly/non-exempt employees accrue up to 120 hours paid time off
• Equity program
• Discretionary annual cash incentive program

About the company

Lucid creates mobility experiences through proprietary technology and software-defined vehicle architecture. The company performs design, engineering, and production in-house across global offices and manufacturing facilities.