Senior Flight Performance Engineer, Air Vehicles
Core
Advanced aerodynamic design, analysis, and flight performance engineering for unmanned air vehicles and missile platforms.
Role type
Senior IC aerospace engineer (flight performance & aerodynamics)
Builds
High-performance, resilient air vehicles and missile systems for military operations
Domain
Defense / Aerospace / Unmanned Air Vehicles
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work
Required skills
aerodynamic analysis (hand calculations, vortex lattice, panel methods, CFD), aircraft performance modeling, stability and control analysis, flight test planning and execution, data acquisition and analysis, programming (MATLAB, Python), formal technical documentation
Preferred skills
transonic and supersonic flow regime analysis
Technologies
MATLAB, Python, CFD tools, flight test data systems
Responsibilities
Perform aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles using low- and high-order methods; support flight test planning, execution, and analysis; conduct stability and control analysis; develop and improve aerodynamic analysis tools; generate aerodynamic loads; model and simulate aircraft performance
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
