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Tesla’s Cell Engineering Factory Programs team is seeking an experienced Staff / Sr Staff Mechanical Engineer to serve as the CFD, HVAC, and fluid dynamics subject matter expert for our 4680 cell manufacturing factories. This is a technical leadership role at the center of Tesla’s global capacity expansion. You will own the models that shape both gigafactory-scale infrastructure and micron-scale, high-speed manufacturing equipment — and you will see that work built, commissioned, and run in production.
You will bring a strong foundation in fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and thermodynamics, with enough industrial HVAC and factory systems experience to treat manufacturing tools and central plant as one integrated design. As Tesla’s CFD authority for cell manufacturing, you will advise process and equipment engineers on how to optimize tool and facility designs to meet product, yield, and environmental requirements. The role is demanding, fast-paced, and high-impact.
What You'll Do
- Lead computational fluid dynamics modeling and analysis for cell manufacturing processes, tool design, and factory space conditioning (HVAC)
- Partner with manufacturing, process, and factory engineering to take designs from concept through optimization, pilot, factory acceptance testing, installation, and commissioning
- Develop mechanical system concepts, utility locations, load requirements, and system specifications during feasibility and conceptual design
- Review and approve factory mechanical design packages, including airflow diagrams, schematics, and P&IDs
- Advise manufacturing engineers on tool and process design changes informed by CFD, thermal, and multi-physics results
- Work with local factory engineering teams and regulatory authorities to apply regional codes and standards to manufacturing equipment and facility interfaces
- Correlate models with plant and tool data; use commissioning and operating results to improve model fidelity and design standards
What You'll Bring
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of thermal and fluid modeling
- Strong command of numerical methods, CFD/FEA, design of experiments, and optimization for multi-physics, multi-scale systems
- Hands-on proficiency with CFD tools such as STAR-CCM+, Ansys Fluent, COMSOL, or equivalent
- Ability to translate engineering analysis into practical builds, test plans, technical requirements, and implementation recommendations
- Field experience installing, troubleshooting, and commissioning instrumentation or related analytical equipment
- Preferred: large-facility infrastructure design in cell manufacturing, semiconductors, or chemical processing, including industrial HVAC
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain modeling results to non-specialists and influence design decisions
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently through ambiguity
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
- Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
Tesla’s Cell Engineering Factory Programs team is seeking an experienced Staff / Sr Staff Mechanical Engineer to serve as the CFD, HVAC, and fluid dynamics subject matter expert for our 4680 cell manufacturing factories. This is a technical leadership role at the center of Tesla’s global capacity expansion. You will own the models that shape both gigafactory-scale infrastructure and micron-scale, high-speed manufacturing equipment — and you will see that work built, commissioned, and run in production.
You will bring a strong foundation in fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, and thermodynamics, with enough industrial HVAC and factory systems experience to treat manufacturing tools and central plant as one integrated design. As Tesla’s CFD authority for cell manufacturing, you will advise process and equipment engineers on how to optimize tool and facility designs to meet product, yield, and environmental requirements. The role is demanding, fast-paced, and high-impact.
What You'll Do
- Lead computational fluid dynamics modeling and analysis for cell manufacturing processes, tool design, and factory space conditioning (HVAC)
- Partner with manufacturing, process, and factory engineering to take designs from concept through optimization, pilot, factory acceptance testing, installation, and commissioning
- Develop mechanical system concepts, utility locations, load requirements, and system specifications during feasibility and conceptual design
- Review and approve factory mechanical design packages, including airflow diagrams, schematics, and P&IDs
- Advise manufacturing engineers on tool and process design changes informed by CFD, thermal, and multi-physics results
- Work with local factory engineering teams and regulatory authorities to apply regional codes and standards to manufacturing equipment and facility interfaces
- Correlate models with plant and tool data; use commissioning and operating results to improve model fidelity and design standards
What You'll Bring
- Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years of thermal and fluid modeling
- Strong command of numerical methods, CFD/FEA, design of experiments, and optimization for multi-physics, multi-scale systems
- Hands-on proficiency with CFD tools such as STAR-CCM+, Ansys Fluent, COMSOL, or equivalent
- Ability to translate engineering analysis into practical builds, test plans, technical requirements, and implementation recommendations
- Field experience installing, troubleshooting, and commissioning instrumentation or related analytical equipment
- Preferred: large-facility infrastructure design in cell manufacturing, semiconductors, or chemical processing, including industrial HVAC
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain modeling results to non-specialists and influence design decisions
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to work independently through ambiguity
Benefits
Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Tesla employee, you are eligible for the following benefits at day 1 of hire:
- Medical plans > plan options with $0 payroll deduction
- Family-building, fertility, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Dental (including orthodontic coverage) and vision plans, both have options with a $0 paycheck contribution
- Company Paid (Health Savings Accounts) HSA Contribution when enrolled in the High-Deductible medical plan with HSA
- Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) with employer match, Employee Stock Purchase Plans, and other financial benefits
- Company paid Basic Life, AD&D
- Short-term and long-term disability insurance (90 day waiting period)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Sick and Vacation time (Flex time for salary positions, Accrued hours for Hourly positions), and Paid Holidays
- Back-up childcare and parenting support resources
- Voluntary benefits to include: critical illness, hospital indemnity, accident insurance, theft & legal services, and pet insurance
- Weight Loss and Tobacco Cessation Programs
- Tesla Babies program
- Commuter benefits
- Employee discounts and perks program
- Earned Wage Access: Real-time pay access paid daily, subject to eligibility and schedule (applicable for below Sr. Managers levels)
Tesla is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
Tesla is also committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. Please let your recruiter know if you need an accommodation at any point during the interview process.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in CFD engineer jobs.
- Proficiency in one or more commercial or open-source CFD solvers such as ANSYS Fluent, Star-CCM+, or OpenFOAM
- Bachelor's or master's degree in mechanical, aerospace, or chemical engineering
- Experience with meshing tools including ICEM CFD, Pointwise, or ANSA
- Ability to validate simulation results against experimental or analytical data
- Familiarity with scripting or automation using Python, MATLAB, or solver-native scripting languages
- Knowledge of relevant fluid physics such as turbulence modeling, heat transfer, or multiphase flow
Tips for Your CFD Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to solver keywords
Job postings for cfd engineers almost always name the solver expected: ANSYS Fluent, OpenFOAM, Star-CCM+, or Siemens FLOEFD. Match the solver names in your resume exactly to the ones in each posting so your application clears automated screening.
Show validation cases, not just simulations
Hiring managers want proof your models match physical reality. Highlight projects where you compared CFD results against experimental data or analytical benchmarks, and quantify the agreement. Generic simulation screenshots rarely move candidates forward.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists cfd engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by industry to sharpen targeting
CFD skills transfer across industries, but aerospace employers care about compressible flow and hypersonics while energy companies prioritize combustion or subsea modeling. Search by industry first so your cover letter and portfolio can speak directly to what each team is solving.
Prepare a mesh strategy walkthrough for interviews
Interviewers frequently ask you to explain how you would mesh a complex geometry under a tight compute budget. Practice talking through your cell count decisions, boundary layer treatment, and convergence criteria out loud before your technical screen.
Negotiate compute resource access, not just salary
Before accepting an offer, ask about HPC cluster availability, software license seats, and cloud compute allowances. A cfd engineer without adequate compute time is bottlenecked regardless of base pay, and these details rarely appear in job descriptions.
CFD Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most cfd engineers?
The companies hiring the most cfd engineers right now include Zone 5 Technologies, BNH, and Tesla, with the largest share of openings in California, Maryland, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Aerospace primes, automotive OEMs, and energy companies consistently account for the bulk of active postings.
How many cfd engineer jobs are remote?
About 69% of cfd engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting that most roles still require on-site access to HPC clusters, lab data, or proprietary solver licenses. Post-processing, model review, and documentation work are the sub-areas most commonly approved for remote arrangements.
How do you become a cfd engineer?
Start with a bachelor's degree in mechanical, aerospace, or chemical engineering, covering fluid mechanics and heat transfer. Develop hands-on solver skills through coursework or personal projects in OpenFOAM or a commercial package. Build a portfolio of validated simulation cases, then target entry-level roles in aerospace, automotive, or energy where CFD is central to the team's workflow.
How do you get hired as a cfd engineer with little or no experience?
Focus on a portfolio over credentials. Reproduce a published experimental dataset using an open-source solver, document your mesh strategy and convergence history, and post the case publicly. Entry-level postings at defense contractors and engineering consultancies frequently consider candidates who can demonstrate methodical problem-solving even without professional simulation experience.
What does the cfd engineer interview process look like?
Most processes run three to four stages: an initial recruiter screen, a technical phone interview covering fluid mechanics fundamentals and solver experience, a take-home or live simulation challenge where you mesh and run a geometry or interpret results from a provided case, and a final panel with engineers and a hiring manager focused on project experience and team fit.
Where can I find and apply to cfd engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to cfd engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your solver skills, industry background, and seniority level, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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