Energy Recovery, Inc.

Engineer

• Support R&D projects involving pressure exchangers, centrifugal and reciprocating pumps, turbines, turbochargers, and other fluid machines
• Develop analytical and CFD models to analyze and optimize turbomachinery and fluid machinery designs and predict performance across the operating envelope
• Use ANSYS CFX/Fluent and/or STAR-CCM+ to generate meshes, perform CFD analyses, and postprocess results
• Build 1-D steady-state and transient fluid system models using Simscape, GT-SUITE, Simcenter Flomaster, or equivalent tools
• Help develop validation test plans and collaborate with testing teams to validate model predictions
• Process test data and derive physics-based insights for models
• Develop validated semi-empirical performance models for ERI products
• Participate in fluid-machine development, including hydraulic sizing, engineering analyses, design reviews, experimental validation, root-cause analyses, and manufacturing release
• Collaborate with multinational, cross-functional teams across time zones
• Follow ERI’s phase-gated development process and contribute to design reviews and documentation
• Contribute to validated design tools and design practices
• Perform other assigned duties and projects

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R&D Engineer, Fluid Mechanics, Systems Modeling

Mechanical Engineer

• Support R&D projects involving fluid machines such as pressure exchangers, centrifugal and reciprocating pumps, turbines, and turbochargers
• Design fluid machinery components and assemblies and create detailed engineering drawings with GD&T and tolerance stack-ups while optimizing manufacturability and quality
• Use commercial FEA solvers such as ANSYS to evaluate design life and robustness of mechanical components and systems
• Support experiment design and test setups to validate designs and model predictions
• Use MATLAB, Python, and similar software to process test and analysis data and draw physics-based insights
• Participate in engineering analyses, detailed design, DFMEA, design reviews, prototype builds, experimental validation, root-cause analyses, and release to manufacturing
• Collaborate with multinational, cross-functional teams across time zones
• Follow ERI’s phase-gated development process and contribute to design reviews and documentation
• Contribute to validated design tools and design practices
• Provide mechanical design support for new technology, new product development, and current fluid machinery product lines
• Support validation testing with engineering teams in the US and India
• Report to the Director, Product Design

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R&D Engineer, Mechanical Design

• Serve as R&D technical lead on New Technology and New Product development projects involving fluid machines such as pressure exchangers, centrifugal and reciprocating pumps, turbines, and turbochargers
• Lead or participate in the full development cycle of fluid machines, including 1-D sizing, engineering analyses, detailed design and layout, rotor-bearing systems, seals and secondary flow paths, materials selection, validation test rig development, experimental validation, and release to manufacturing
• Apply design, FEA, CFD, 1-D system modeling, testing, and materials expertise to solve complex technical problems and make engineering trade-offs
• Define validation test plans and work with US- and India-based teams to obtain data, confirm model predictions, and refine designs
• Collaborate with multinational, cross-functional teams across time zones, including R&D, product engineering, manufacturing, quality, and business units
• Provide technical guidance and design review leadership to India-based engineers and establish engineering best practices
• Follow ERI’s phase-gated development process, leading design reviews and documentation at each phase
• Contribute to the R&D technology roadmap and identify opportunities to expand ERI's product lines
• Work on technologies and products for desalination, wastewater, and other industrial processes based on proprietary isobaric pressure exchangers
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned

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