Aerodynamics Engineer, Hypersonic Air Vehicles

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Aerodynamics design of unmanned air vehicles/missiles at conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design maturities
• Aerodynamics analysis of unmanned air vehicles, using both low and high order methods, including analysis tool development and improvement as needed
• Stability and control analysis
• Trajectory optimization for performance analysis, vehicle conceptual trades, and sensitivities
• Aerothermodynamic analysis of flight vehicles in high-speed environments
• Aircraft performance modeling and simulation
• Aerodynamic loads generation
• Wind tunnel test planning, execution, and analysis

Job requirements

• BS or higher degree in Aerospace Engineering
• Experience with a variety of aerodynamic analysis techniques including hand calculations, lower-order codes, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
• Strong programming skills in higher-level languages (e.g., MATLAB, Python) for internal tool development in a version-controlled environment
• Experience preparing formal documentation (i.e., specifications, test procedures, technical reports, etc.)
• Passion for defending the United States and her allies
• Be able to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
• StarCCM+ experience
• Experience evaluating external aerodynamics characteristics of a vehicle in the supersonic or hypersonic flow regime