Glad you found the original post helpful, and thank you to @atrettel for the additional posts, the job board was especially helpful. Sorry for the delay in replay, as HN has no "waiting replies" notification, so I only noticed based on number change.
From looking over the jobs @atrettel linked to. One other point, is there are actually a lot of different fields other than the "norm". There tends to be a stereotype that its all rockets, airplanes, and cars, yet there's a bunch of others.
Healthcare CFD (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ohio State University), Food CFD (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Ocean CFD (Louisiana State University), Plasma CFD (University of Texas at Austin), Civil CFD (UC Berkeley), Petroleum CFD (Pennsylvania State University), Environmental/Pollution CFD (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Weather/Hurricane CFD (Florida International University), Mining/USGS CFD (Colorado School of Mines), CUDA/GPU CFD (Altech LLC), and a bunch of others.
So being from a certain background should not be a worry. There's a lot of industries to lateral in from. The only issue is the limited job pool. However, I started at NASA simply writing software (Perl, FORTRAN, Linux), with a background and knowledge of CFD.
From looking over the jobs @atrettel linked to. One other point, is there are actually a lot of different fields other than the "norm". There tends to be a stereotype that its all rockets, airplanes, and cars, yet there's a bunch of others.
Healthcare CFD (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ohio State University), Food CFD (University of Michigan-Dearborn), Ocean CFD (Louisiana State University), Plasma CFD (University of Texas at Austin), Civil CFD (UC Berkeley), Petroleum CFD (Pennsylvania State University), Environmental/Pollution CFD (New Jersey Institute of Technology), Weather/Hurricane CFD (Florida International University), Mining/USGS CFD (Colorado School of Mines), CUDA/GPU CFD (Altech LLC), and a bunch of others.
So being from a certain background should not be a worry. There's a lot of industries to lateral in from. The only issue is the limited job pool. However, I started at NASA simply writing software (Perl, FORTRAN, Linux), with a background and knowledge of CFD.
Also, there are definitely jobs (12/24/2023):
Glassdoor, 780: https://www.glassdoor.com/Job/united-states-cfd-engineer-job...
LinkedIn, 50000: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/computational-fluid-dynamics-j...
Indeed, 800: https://www.indeed.com/q-Computational-Fluid-Dynamics-jobs.h...