About PLD:
PLD Space is an international companyon a mission to transport satellites into space, vertically integrating the engineering, testing, manufacturing, and operations of its reusable and sustainable rockets. Headquartered in Elche (Spain) and founded in 2011 by Raúl Torres and Raúl Verdú, PLD Space hasestablisheditself as a general benchmark in the small satellite launch sector. Its family of MIURA launchers and LINCE crewed capsulepositionthe company as a leader in European technological sovereignty for space transportation, covering the full spectrum of space missions.
PLD Spaceoperatesover 188,000 m² of facilities in Elche, Teruel (Spain), Kourou (French Guiana), and Duqm (Oman), enabling the company to provide comprehensive satellite and payload launch services into space.
Teamwork, courage, determination and ambition enable PLD Space to guarantee an autonomous, independent satellite space access capability, based on reliability at a globally competitive price.



The company is able to offer best-in-class launch services to commercial satellite operators, institutions, space agencies and national and international governmental entities
Mission
As an aerodynamics engineer your mission is topredictaerodynamic environments, in ascent and re‑entry phase, whileproviding design solutions for MIURA 5 launch vehicles.
Responsibilities
Building Computational Fluid Dynamic meshes for aerodynamic force and moment predictions (including creating geometries, meshing, runningsimulations, validating, and post processing output information).
Analyse External Aerodynamics of Launch Vehicles and Optimize LaunchVehicles’ geometries from a fluidic perspective.
Correlation of Flight Test Data and wind tunnel test data to CFDModels.
Development, analysis and validation of in‑house software to predict launcher vehicles performance.
Contribute performing heat

📌 Aerodynamics Engineer (Elche)
🏢 PLD Space
📍 Elche