The Air Dominance and Strike Aerodynamics Engineering Team is responsible for the advanced aerodynamic design and analysis for Group 5air vehicles and missile platforms. Air Dominance and Strike Aerodynamics Engineers own the full development lifecycle, from conceptual design to flight test planning, execution and analysis ensuring high-performance, resilient, and scalable systems that meet the demands of complex, contested environments.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Aerodynamic design of unmanned air vehicles/missiles at conceptual, preliminary, and detail design maturities
Aerodynamic analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low and high order methods,
including analysis tool development and improvement as needed
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
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering
3+ work experience as an individual contributing engineer
Experience with aircraft performance and analysis predictions
Competent in a variety of aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, vortex, lattice methods, panel methods, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
Wind tunnel and flight test experience including data acquisition, data analysis and project coordination
Strong programming skills in higher-level languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python) for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment