🚀 Senior or Principal Performance Engineer

Senior or Principal Performance Engineer

Line Manager: Head of Product Development, IE-FLIGHT

Posted on: Monday 29th September, 2025

About the Role

Do you want to join a team at the forefront of decarbonising aviation and play your part in powering the hydrogen future?

You’ll play a key role in determining the performance possibilities of our fuel cell in an aerospace application through the generation and analysis of design data. You’ll use your expertise in performance modelling to improve performance, and to support concepting and detailed design activities.

Working closely with your colleagues in systems engineering, you’ll ensure design targets are met and support the commercial team by generating design data for our customers.

About You

You hold a BEng, BSc (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline and have at least 5 years relevant industrial experience, ideally within the aerospace industry.

You’ll be able to demonstrate experience with fluidic systems and understanding of thermal management and compressors. You’ve got proven experience of using MATLAB and Simulink to develop data validated engineering models.

You have a talent for understanding engineering principles, methodologies and underlying physics and can articulate them clearly to your colleagues. You love solving problems, are highly motivated and have strong attention to detail.

What We Offer

This role is based on site in our Loughborough facility.

At Intelligent Energy we offer the opportunity to work in a great team, with our world leading technology and cutting-edge products.

We offer the following range of benefits:

• Salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Life cover
• 25 days holiday per year plus public holidays with flexibility to buy or sell holidays each year
• Electric Car Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Exclusive discounts at a wide range of high-street and online retailers
• A relocation allowance where required
• Reimbursement of professional memberships or subscriptions

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