Principal Systems Engineer, Aircraft Simulation and Design Integration

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Own the architecture, development, and validation of integrated aircraft simulations.
• Use simulation to guide aircraft configuration, subsystem sizing, requirements, and design trade studies.
• Integrate aerodynamic, structural, propulsion, electrical, mass-properties, controls, and mission-performance models.
• Lead multidisciplinary design optimization and sensitivity analyses.
• Quantify design margins, uncertainty, risk, and system-level impacts of proposed changes.
• Define simulation fidelity requirements appropriate to each phase of development.
• Establish model verification, validation, configuration-management, and documentation practices.
• Correlate simulation results with component tests, ground tests, and flight-test data.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience developing or applying aircraft-level models and simulations.
• Strong understanding of aircraft performance, flight mechanics, dynamics and multidisciplinary system interactions.
• Experience integrating models from aerodynamics, structures, propulsion,electrical, controls, or thermal disciplines.
• Proficiency with simulation and analysis tools such as MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, or equivalent platforms.
• Experience conducting trade studies, parameter sweeps, sensitivity analyses, uncertainty quantification, or optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to convert simulation results into actionable aircraft, design recommendations.
• Experience with model verification, validation, test correlation, and configuration control.