Sr. Staff Aerodynamics Engineer

Responsibilities

• Act as a Sr. Staff Aerodynamics Engineer for a novel type of aircraft development targeting the autonomous UAM market.
• Develop and run Computational Fluid Dynamics models.
• Create and modify CFD meshes for time-accurate, blade resolved models of the Gen 6 aircraft.
• Develop and maintain high-fidelity models of the Wisk Gen 6 Aircraft using industry best practices.
• Support aerodynamic shape optimization for airframe components to maximize range and minimize noise signatures.
• Take part in validating CFD results against flight test data from our Gen 6 aircraft, wind tunnel experiments, and lower-fidelity analytical tools.

Requirements

• BS, MS, or PhD in Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineering or related fields.
• A minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• Experience with rotorcraft performance and the theories associated with propeller and rotor-driven propulsion.
• Applied knowledge of blade-resolved, time-accurate CFD codes.
• Highly experienced with steady and unsteady RANS solvers.
• Highly experienced with NASA OVERFLOW solver and associated gridding tools.
• Knowledge of optimization frameworks utilizing adjoint-based methods, surrogate modeling, or similar methods.
• Experience scripting with Python or MATLAB.
• Experience with scripting routines and best practices used for CFD analysis automation and post-processing.
• Experience flight matching Aero Databases with experimental test data, and validating Aero Databases against flight test and wind tunnel data.

Desired Experience

• With HELIOS computational software framework.
• Familiarity with Siemens NX CAD software.
• Familiarity with PointWise or similar meshing tools.
• Experience with high performance computing systems.
• Familiarity with rotorcraft aeroacoustics.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, 9 off Fridays for full-time employees throughout the year, flexible vacation time off, 11 company holidays, a 401(k) plan with 50% company matching vested immediately, commuter assistance, and education assistance.

And on top of all that, we also offer a variety of perks such as free catered lunches, flight lessons, wellness allowances, snacks, drinks, employee referral bonus, charitable giving match, patent bonus program, and more.