Thermal Systems Digital Twin Engineer
| Company | Passive Logic |
|---|---|
| Location | Murray, UT, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Master’s, PhD |
| Experience Level | Mid Level |
Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related field with a focus on thermal-fluid sciences.
- Strong understanding of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid dynamics.
- Hands-on experience in physics-based modeling.
- Understanding of buildings, mechanical, and process control.
- Strong numerical methods, mathematical modeling, and data analysis skill.
- Experience with mathematical modeling tools (e.g. Modelica, Dymola, Trnsys, Matlab, Mathcad, Maple, Python, etc).
- Have interest in (or, better yet, experience with) computer programming and/or software development.
- Exceptional communication skills: Strong desire to be an extraordinary teammate with a collaborative, interpersonal communication style.
- Organized and strategic: Establish clear workflows for developing and refining models, in addition to developing a structured approach to validating those models, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
- Collaborative mindset: Openness to participate in a feedback-based work process to guide improvements and drive growth.
- Adaptability: Comfortable in a fast-paced startup environment, eager to learn, iterate, and innovate.
- Problem solving: You own this role. When issues arise, be the empowered force that solves them, rolling-up.
Responsibilities
- Defines and develops fundamental component templates, in addition to managing the component template evolution process.
- Develop mathematical models for equipment, thermo-physical systems, and building simulation.
- Standardize and validate physics-based models for use by the PassiveLogic control engine for optimized autonomous control of buildings.
- Contribute to both model development and software implementation.
Preferred Qualifications
- Good analysis and problem-solving skills; experience with FEA modeling techniques.
- Knowledge of the fundamentals of building energy and/or HVAC systems.
- Strong programming skills: Including but not limited to: Swift, Matlab, C++, C, etc.
- Experience/familiarity with graph theory and Bond Graph modeling approaches.
- Experience/familiarity with EnergyPlus or other building simulation environments.
- Experience/familiarity with Swift language development experience (S4TF even better).
- Experience/familiarity with heuristic, statistical, or machine learning methods.
- Experience/familiarity with working in a startup.