Senior Mass Properties Engineer, Thunder
Core
Develop, track, and manage mass properties (weight, center of gravity, inertia) for autonomous attack rotorcraft to meet design and performance criteria.
Role type
Senior IC mass properties engineer (aerospace/defense)
Builds
Autonomous attack rotorcraft (Thunder) mission systems and airframes
Domain
Defense / Aerospace / Autonomous Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Aerospace engineering principles, vehicle dynamics, system integration, mass distribution analysis, weight and balance control, configuration trade study guidance, mass properties accounting, BOM and weights data management
Preferred skills
Leading mass properties efforts from development to flight test, aircraft mass properties tools, coding for complex databases, competitive engineering program experience (Formula SAE, Baja SAE)
Technologies
Aircraft mass properties tools, complex databases
Responsibilities
Contribute to development of mass properties data for new air vehicle development; Develop, track, and manage mass properties data throughout air vehicle design phases; Participate in defining mass properties related design requirements; Provide vehicle and subsystem configuration trade study guidance; Support vehicle and subsystem level weight and balance control efforts; Estimate, calculate, measure, and verify weight, balance, and inertia of components, assemblies, and completed vehicles or systems
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
