Rotordynamics Engineer

We're Hiring: Rotordynamics Engineer – Gas Turbine Systems

Full time | Core team

LAT Aerospace | Gas Turbine Engines

LAT Aerospace is developing next-generation aerospace systems from first principles. This includes a hybrid electric aircraft that takes off and lands within a space of a parking lot, Defence systems built from ground up and scalable Gas Turbine Engines.

We are looking for Rotordynamics Engineers to own the analysis and development of high-speed rotating systems from architecture through testing. You will work across shafts, disks, bearings, seals, clearances, and structural dynamics to ensure the rotating system operates safely and reliably across the full engine operating envelope.

What you’ll do

• Own rotordynamics analysis including critical speeds, Campbell diagrams, mode shapes, damping, stability, and synchronous/asynchronous response.

• Develop and optimize shaft, disk, bearing, coupling, and rotating assembly architectures.

• Analyze tip clearances and thermal growth across cold start, steady-state, and transient operating conditions.

• Perform structural, thermal, fatigue, and creep analysis of high-speed rotating components.

• Evaluate bearing, seal, damping, and support-system behaviour and drive design improvements.

• Analyze rotor response to unbalance, blade excitation, engine orders, and other dynamic loads.

• Work closely with mechanical, thermal, aerodynamic, and manufacturing teams to develop integrated rotating systems.

• Define and support rotor balancing, instrumentation, and experimental validation of rotordynamic models.

• Correlate analytical models with test data and drive design iterations based on experimental results.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of professional experience in rotordynamics, turbomachinery, or high-speed rotating machinery.

• Postgraduate degree (M.Tech/MS/PhD) in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong fundamentals in rotordynamics, vibration, structural dynamics, and rotating machinery.

• Hands-on experience with critical speed analysis, Campbell diagrams, rotor stability, forced response, and damping.

• Strong experience with FEA tools such as ANSYS, Abaqus, Nastran, COMSOL, or equivalent.

• Experience with bearings, seals, dampers, couplings, and high-RPM rotating systems.

• Understanding of thermal-structural effects, fatigue, creep, and material limits in rotating components.

• Taking analytical models through hardware development and experimental validation is highly preferred.

• Hands on experience with multiple design, build and test cycles of gas turbine prototypes.

Why LAT?

• No hierarchy beyond strength of ideas.

• Rapid hardware iteration culture.

• Own the complete journey from engineering design to flight-ready hardware.