Flight Sciences Engineer

• Applying understanding of vehicle dynamics, equations of motion, and physics of flight to predict and analyze aircraft, autopilot, and mission performance of existing UAS.
• Analyzing and predicting performance of new UAS concepts, quantifying effect of changes to existing UAS designs (including payload integrations), and identifying potential improvements to existing UAS designs
• Creating, maintaining, and updating simulation environments and models for flight vehicles, including Monte-Carlo and full software-in-the-loop flight simulations, fly-out models, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models.
• Analyzing flight and wind tunnel test data and comparing results to predicted performance to refine and verify simulations and models.

• BS in Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related discipline.
• Effective personal and technical communication skills, including technical documentation and reporting skills and data visualization and presentation skills.
• Professional personal skills
• U.S. Person status is required as this position needs to access export controlled data

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced degree in one of the disciplines listed above or related disciplines.  
• Experience with the following:
• Flight simulation development
• UAS autopilot / GNC design and evaluation
• Creating CFD models and applying results to multi-disciplinary analysis and design of flight vehicles
• Flight and wind tunnel testing and data analysis
• Aircraft design
• Proficiency in C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Simulink, or Python