The candidate will perform Air Vehicle Performance and Sizing analysis within a Flight Sciences team, working with related disciplines including Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Mass Properties, Configuration, and others. Tasks include:

• Conduct preliminary design synthesis and analysis of advanced manned and unmanned air vehicles demonstrating technical expertise and knowledge of other related disciplines

• Tasks include takeoff/landing, mission and point performance characteristics of candidate aircraft designs as well as design synthesis and optimization of vehicles to meet operational requirements

• Conduct vehicle sizing and performance trade studies to define and evaluate advanced concepts, identify technology requirements, perform parametric trade studies and provide design guidance to the other team disciplines.

• Conduct competitive vehicle performance assessments of current U.S. and foreign inventory designs may also be required, as well as flight test data analysis and correlations to performance models.

• Develop technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems in an imaginative, thorough, and practicable manner while also documenting and present results.

• Interact and brief external customers, as well as serve as a technical lead.

• Support vehicle performance and sizing analysis for vehicle programs from government organizations such as Air Force, Navy, NASA, DARPA and others.

• Provide analysis, guide design teams to execute program goals, support proposal and business development activities.

Air Vehicle Performance and Sizing Engineer

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 2 years’ experience, or a Master’s degree in a STEM.

• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance or higher (that has a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or is under continuous evaluation).

• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access

• Must be versatile, applying technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems in an imaginative, thorough, and practicable manner.

• Understanding of aircraft performance analysis with general knowledge of related disciplines.

• Understanding of conceptual air vehicle sizing analysis

• 2+ years of experience with one or more of the following: Python, Matlab, C++, Fortran, Linux

Preferred Qualifications:

• Understanding of fundamental aircraft design, aerodynamic and propulsion parameters

• Must be versatile, applying technical solutions to a wide range of problems in an imaginative, thorough, and practicable manner.

• Experience with aircraft carrier suitability analysis, including but not limited to launch & recovery, bolter, waveoff, and nose wheel lift off

• Experience assessing mission performance, turn performance, kinematic maneuvering, takeoff and landing. Experience in aircraft sizing

• Familiarity with MIL-STD-3013B

• Experience with multi-disciplinary design, analysis, and optimization (MDAO)

• Experience modeling VTOL (Vertical Takeoff Landing) vehicle configurations

• Experience with generation of carpet plots and implementing numerical methods

• Familiarity developing python packages and working in a Linux terminal.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management

• Air vehicle or performance/sizing lead experience

Principal Air Vehicle Performance and Sizing Engineer

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 5 years’ experience, or a Master’s degree in a STEM with 3 years of experience

• Must have an active DoD Secret clearance or higher (that has a background investigation completed within the last 6 years or is under continuous evaluation).

• Ability to obtain and maintain Special Program Access

• Must be versatile, applying technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems in an imaginative, thorough, and practicable manner.

• Complete understanding of aircraft performance analysis with general knowledge of related disciplines. Experience assessing mission performance, turn performance, kinematic maneuvering, takeoff and landing

• Complete understanding of conceptual air vehicle sizing analysis

• 4+ years of experience with one or more of the following: Python, Matlab, C++, Fortran, Linux

• Air vehicle or performance/sizing lead experience

• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and the ability to interface with all levels of employees and management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with aircraft carrier suitability analysis, including but not limited to launch & recovery, bolter, waveoff, and nose wheel lift off

• Experience applying MIL-STD-3013B rules

• Experience with multi-disciplinary design, analysis, and optimization (MDAO)

• Experience modeling VTOL (Vertical Takeoff Landing) vehicle configurations

• Experience with generation of carpet plots and implementing numerical methods

• Experience developing python packages and working in a Linux terminal.

• Experience with Force and Moment Accounting system