Links - Employment
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CFD Related Job Resources
These are all good career sites covering fields closely related to CFD.
- CFD Jobs Database
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- A forum where Universities, Companies and Organizations advertise open
positions in the field of CFD. This is the best place on the net to look
for CFD jobs. The service is used by most major CFD companies to recruit
new personnel. If you haven't seen it you should definitely check it out.
It is a service provided by this web site.
- ASME Career Center
- A searchable database of employment opportunities for mechanical engineers
in the US. Sometimes has a few CFD jobs.
- CFD Recruitment
- A small U.K. based company specializing in CFD recruitment.
- SciComp Web
Pages, Job Opportunities
- A list of open positions in scientific computing provided by the German
Scientific Computing Web Pages. Biased towards Germany and research positions.
It's free and updated regularly.
- AMS, Careers and Employment
- Career information provided by the American Mathematical Society. Has employment
listings, a lot of links and general career information. Biased towards math
and academia. Has a few CFD related jobs now and then, but I couldn't find
any now (July, 2001).
- SIAM Job Board
- Job offerings from SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics)
News. Very much biased towards academia and numerics.
- TIPTOP Jobs On-Line
- A dynamic job list for physicists. Has a very nice WWW interface and you
can get notified by email each week if something fitting your profile is
posted.
- Meshing Jobs Database
- Advertising open positions in the field of mesh and grid generation. This
is a free service offered by the Meshing Research Corner in cooperation with
CFD Online. Editor is Steven
J. Owen.
- Coastal & Ocean Engineering Jobs Database
- Advertising open positions in the field of coastal and ocean engineering.
This is a free service offered in cooperation with CFD Online.
- Experimental and Theoretical Fluid Dynamics Jobs Database
- Advertising open positions in the field of experimental and theoretical
fluid dynamics. This is a free service offered by ERCOFTAC
nexus in cooperation with CFD Online.
- PhDs.Org
- Career information related to science, math and engineering. Has a large
link section and also individual job postings.
- SCIENCE - Current Positions Advertised
- Ads published in the magazine Science. Might have something related
to CFD.
Specific Companies & Organizations
This is just a few pointers to companies and organizations that often have open
CFD positions advertised on the web. It is impossible to include everything here
and this list is in no way complete, but it's enough to keep you surfing for
a while. Most of the companies listed here do, however, use the
CFD
Jobs Database.
- CFX Job Opportunities
- CFX is one of the largest general purpose CFD codes. CFX is now owned by
Ansys. They have CFD related offices in Harvell U.K., Waterloo ON, Canada,
Bethel Park PA, USA and many other places.
- AVL
Employment Opportunities
- AVL is an Austrian company specializing in development tools for powertrain
systems and internal combustion engines. They sell several CFD codes for
the automotive industry (AVL-FIRE, AVL-SWIFT, AVL-FAME, ...). Occasionally
they offer jobs related to CFD code development and applications. Their main
office is in Graz, Austria with worldwide affiliates. The US location is
Plymouth, MI (near Detroit).
- Boeing Employment
- A central employment page for the Boeing Company and its subsidiaries.
It's a huge company, and it takes some digging to find CFD jobs. You can
submit your resume to them if you can't find any interesting jobs now. I
wish they would post their CFD jobs in the CFD Jobs Database also, but I
guess they are "too big" for that.
- CERFACS, Open Positions
- Jobs at the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific
Computation. An organization based in France.
- CD-adapco Jobs
- CD-adapco is a big general purpose CFD code vendor. Their main product
is the STAR-CD code. Their main office is in London, United Kingdom. In the
US, CD-adapco has a large CFD consultancy service in Melville on Long Island
outside New York. They also have an office in Detroit, Michigan.
- CFD Research Corporation, Employment Opportunities
- CFD Research Corporation often have CFD related jobs. Their main office
is in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. CFDRC used to develop and sell general purpose
CFD codes (CFD-ACE and Fastran). This part of the business has now been sold
to ESI Group
- Eloret Corporation, Employment
Opportunities
- Eloret Corporation is a small firm offering research and engineering contract
and consulting services to clients in government, industry and academia.
Their main major focus has been to run the Thermosciences Institute at NASA
Ames. You can often find CFD related jobs here.
- ESI Group, Job Opportunities
- ESI specializes in virtual prototype testing. They also cell general purpose
CFD codes like CFD-Ace and Fastran. Their main office is in Rungis, near
Paris in France.
- Exa
Inc., Job Openings
- Exa is a CFD code vendor specializing in lattice-gas methods. So far most
of their clients have been from the automotive industry. Their main office
is in Lexington MA, USA. They also have a European branch.
- Fluent Inc., Employment
Opportunities
- Fluent is the largest general purpose CFD code vendor in the world. They
have about 30% market share. Their main office is in Lebanon, New Hampshire,
USA. But they have operations in many countries around the world.
- General Electric, Career Site
- A whole site with information about how to make a career at GE. GE is a
huge company and also a big employer of CFD engineers. You can find CFD jobs
in for example GE Aircraft Engines and GE Power Systems. If you do some digging
you can find individual job posts. I wish they would post their CFD jobs
in the CFD Jobs Database also, but I guess they are "too big" for
that.
- Innovative Technology Solutions
Corporation (ITSC), Jobs
- ITSC is a multi-disciplinary engineering and information services firm.
They sometimes have open CFD positions. Their main office is in Albuquerque,
New Mexico.
- Lockheed Martin, Employment
Opportunities
- A big player in the defense and aerospace industry. Must have lots of opportunities
for CFD engineers, but it sure isn't easy to find them here.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, Jobs
- This is where it all started once upon a time. You can still find a few
CFD jobs at this cradle of CFD research.
- NCSA
Job Announcements
- NCSA at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. They might
have some CFD related jobs.
- United Technologies Research Center, Job Postings
- UTRC is a large research organizations serving companies like Pratt & Whitney,
Carrier and Sikorsky. Their head office is in East Hartford, Connecticut,
USA. You can sometimes find open CFD positions there, mainly in the "Aeromechanical,
Chemical and Fluid Systems" section.
- ViGYAN Employment Opportunities
- ViGYAN is a small company providing aerospace research and development
services. Their main client is NASA Langley. The have developed ViGPLOT and
VGRID. You might find one or two CFD related jobs here. Their main office
is in Hampton, Virginia.
Link Lists
- Career Centers at various Universities
- A list of career development services in different US universities. By
Jasmit Singh Kochhar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
- Yahoo! - Colleges and Universities
- This very extensive list of colleges and university around the world is
a good place to start if you are looking for a specific region or school.
General Career Resources
This section has a few pointers to general career resources that can be useful.
You'll probably find more complete and current information by following the links.
Job-Link Collections
- Yahoo! - Business and Economy > Employment and Work > Careers and Jobs
- Not the most well structured information, but it's a good place to start
surfing. Has separate pages that cover specific fields and regions.
- JobHunt
- A meta-list of online job-search resources and services. Easy to use with
a logic structure. Has a good coverage of high-tech and higher-education
areas.
- The Riley Guide
- A comprehensive list of job resources on the Internet. Well structured
and one of the first good job guides. Has been on the net since 1994 and
it is still maintained regularly.
- Career Resource Center
- Links to jobs, employers, business, education and career service professionals
on the web, plus helpful career resources: bibliographies, software lists,
publications, resource evaluations, event calendars, etc. Thousands of links
and very complete, but the layout is a bit confusing.
Job and Resume Banks
If you are looking for CFD jobs in big companies you should search these general
sites. Smaller CFD companies seldom use these services, but companies like GE
and Boeing use them frequently.
- monster.com
- A good site with an extensive database and a simple interface. You can
search by keyword or browse by region or field. Used by many blue-chips like
Boeing, Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. There is a simple interface
to the monster database which makes it easy to search for CFD jobs all over
the world: here: www.jobs.com
"CFD" Job Hits: 265, Checked: Apr 3, 2005
- Yahoo! HotJobs
- Yahoo's jobs service is one of the largest jobs databases you will find.
Monster.com above is much bigger though. Used by many large companies.
"CFD" Job Hits: 76, Checked: Apr 3, 2005
- CareerBuilder.com
- Has employer profiles, a jobs database and a resume bank online. Also hosts
job-fairs. Offers the possibility to search newspaper employment ads from
many big cities in the US.
"CFD" Job Hits: 69, Checked: Apr 3, 2005
- Career Magazine
- A well structured site with a nice layout and several good articles about
how to improve your skills as a job seeker. Has a job bank and a resume bank
online. Both include usenet news-posts from a wide range of job related newsgroups.
"CFD" Job Hits: 39, Checked: Apr 3, 2005
Job Newsgroups
- misc.jobs.offered
- sci.research.career
- sci.research.postdoc
- College Grad, USenet
Jobs Newsgroups
- Links to Google Groups archives of most job-related newsgroups.
