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Senior Aerodynamicist, Omen

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $166,000–$166,000🗓 2026-07-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Designing unmanned air vehicles and missiles for the Omen autonomous air vehicle program, focusing on aerodynamic design, analysis, and testing across the full development lifecycle.

Role type

Senior individual contributor aerodynamicist (aerospace/defense)

Builds

Unmanned air vehicles (AAVs) and missiles for defense and civilian domains

Domain

Defense aerospace, unmanned systems, aerodynamics

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Aerodynamic design and analysis, Stability and control analysis, Aircraft performance modeling, CFD and panel methods, Wind tunnel test execution, Flight test planning and analysis, Programming in MATLAB/Python, Engineering project execution

Preferred skills

StarCCM+ or Flow360 experience, Subsonic/transonic/supersonic flow regime expertise

Technologies

StarCCM+, Flow360, MATLAB, Python

Responsibilities

Aerodynamic design of unmanned air vehicles/missiles at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities; Aerodynamic analysis using low and high order methods; Stability and control analysis; Aircraft performance modeling and simulation; Aerodynamic loads generation; Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis; Flight test planning, execution, and analysis

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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