Junior Simulation Engineer (Microstructure & Materials Modelling)

Job Description

Hybrid & Remote options considered: Junior Simulation Engineer (Hybrid & remote options considered) - East MidlandsCompany: My client is a well-backed engineering software company. Their product does something most engineering teams would tell you isn't possible, it replaces analysis cycles that currently take a week with answers that come back in seconds. It's commercial, it's in use with real customers, and it's moving into new sectorsThe gap they're hiring for: Our client need someone to own microstructure, grains, phases, damage mechanisms and connect it upwards into the component models that train the AI. Model the material properly and you can predict behaviour for alloys nobody has ever tested. That's what opens new industries for them, and it's precisely why this role exists.

Day to day RVE and microstructure-sensitive models, crystal plasticity, phase field, micromechanical damageHomogenising that response into constitutive models that feed component-level structural and thermal simulationAbaqus user subroutines, calibrated and validated against real experimental dataPython automation, microstructure generation, parametric sweeps, result extraction at training-data volumeYou'll need PhD (or equivalent industrial track record) in materials science, mechanical engineering, metallurgy or similar, computational focusMicrostructure simulation experience, crystal plasticity, phase field, micromechanics, RVE/homogenisationFE background, Abaqus preferred, ANSYS, LS-DYNA, MOOSE and FEniCS people all consideredPython, and the instinct to automate rather than clickNice to have:-Fortran or C++ subroutines-DAMASK, Neper, MOOSE/MARMOT, MICRESS-Thermo-Calc or JMatPro-creep and fatigue in engineering alloys-high-temperature steels or Ni-base superalloys-weld/HAZ modelling-surrogate or reduced-order modelling-ASME, R5, R6Digital Camel acts as an employment agency