Flight Sciences Engineer - Area-I

Area-I is an Anduril company based in metropolitan Atlanta.  Area-I is dedicated to design, development, test, and delivery of state-of-the-art unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to meet the unique operational needs and requirements of U.S. Government and Armed Forces customers.  We specialize in development of UAS that are deployed from mobile host platforms or modular launch systems.

Flight Sciences Engineers in the Flight Systems Directorate apply principles of physics to all aspects of flight, including aerodynamics, propulsion, aircraft performance, stability and control (S&C), and guidance and control (GNC) to support programs and product teams, UAS designers, and ground and flight test activity.  Roles may include some or all of the following:

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• 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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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

Area-I is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.  If you are passionate about working on problems that matter, we’d love to hear from you!