CFD Team Lead

DLB Associates is a premier engineering and consulting firm specializing in innovative, mission-critical solutions across hyperscale data centers, advanced infrastructure, and high-performance building systems. With over four decades of expertise, we partner with some of the world’s most influential companies to design and optimize environments that demand precision, scalability, and resilience.

Join us and be part of a team where your voice matters, your work makes an impact, and your growth is a shared priority.

Position Title: Co-Simulation Engineer II 

Position Location: Remote - work virtually from most locations in the United States 

Salary 

DLB recognizes salary ranges from job boards do not necessarily reflect our pay ranges. In many instances we out-compete those ranges for well-qualified candidates. 

Job Summary 

The CFD Team Lead is a technical and people leadership role within DLB's Design Department, accountable for the day-to-day direction, quality, and growth of the CFD analysis team. This position owns all aspects of the CFD team, including technical execution oversight, staffing, client engagement, and performance, serving as the primary point of accountability so the Design Director can remain focused on broader departmental leadership. 

This role requires sufficient technical fluency in CFD and data center cooling analysis to guide scope, evaluate deliverable quality, and represent the team credibly with clients and leadership, while relying on senior CFD engineers to perform the hands-on modeling. Deep, day-to-day CFD execution is not expected of this role; sound technical judgment and the ability to ask the right questions are. 

The CFD Team Lead is expected to operate with a high degree of independence, providing the Design Director with a concise weekly summary of team status, risks, and priorities, and escalating to leadership along pre-defined pathways. 

Essential Functions 

Team Leadership & People Management (25%) 

• Serve as the direct people manager for the CFD team, including its core technical resources and project management resource 

• Conduct 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for all direct reports 

• Lead hiring for the CFD team, including drafting job descriptions, conducting interviews, and coordinating with Recruitment and HR 

• Approve PTO, review timesheets and expenses, and manage day-to-day staffing and workload balancing 

• Mentor team members and promote a culture of delegation, ownership, and continuous improvement 

• Participate in weekly CFD team coordination and staffing meetings 

• Solicit feedback from the Design Director and other stakeholders on team and individual performance 

Technical Oversight & Quality Assurance (20%) 

• Provide technical guidance and oversight for CFD analysis scope, methodology, and modeling strategy 

• Review and validate meshing, boundary conditions, and modeling approaches at an oversight level, relying on senior engineers for hands-on execution 

• Coordinate and oversee QA/QC reviews of CFD reports and delive