Senior Aerodynamics, Stability & Control and Vehicle Design Advisor
Summary
Senior aerospace engineering advisor designing aircraft, missiles, and aerospace vehicles, focusing on aerodynamics, stability/control, and performance analysis.
Employee shall provide advanced aerospace engineering consulting services in support of Company's aircraft, missile, and aerospace vehicle design activities. Contractor will serve as a senior technical advisor for aerodynamics, flight mechanics, stability and control, performance analysis, multidisciplinary design, and engineering tool development.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Aerodynamics and Flight Performance
- Advise on aerodynamic design, performance analysis, vehicle sizing, configuration development, and trade studies.
- Review aerodynamic predictions, computational analyses, test results, and design methodologies.
- Assist in assessment of vehicle performance, mission effectiveness, and system-level design decisions.
- Stability, Control, and Flight Mechanics
- Provide guidance related to stability and control analysis, flight dynamics, guidance concepts, controllability assessments, and handling qualities.
- Review mathematical models, simulations, and engineering tools used to evaluate vehicle behavior.
- Vehicle Design and Optimization
- Support conceptual and preliminary design activities for aerospace vehicles and subsystems.
- Assist in multidisciplinary design optimization, requirements allocation, sizing methodologies, and engineering trade studies.
- Provide recommendations regarding design approaches, risk reduction, and technical maturation strategies.
- Engineering Methods and Tool Development
- Assist in development, review, validation, and application of engineering tools, software, analytical methods, and workflows.
- Provide recommendations regarding modeling approaches, computational methods, and technical best practices.
- Customer and Technical Engagement
- Participate in technical reviews, customer meetings, design reviews, working groups, and technical interchange meetings as requested by Company.
- Provide subject matter expertise in support of customer interactions, proposals, presentations, and technical communications.
- Mentorship and Technical Leadership
- Provide mentoring and guidance to Company engineering personnel.
- Support development of technical capabilities and engineering processes.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• 15-20 years of experience in aircraft, missile, and aerospace vehicles
• Experience advising companies on aerospace strategies
