Vehicle Dynamics and Controls Engineer

Overview

As a Vehicle Dynamics and Control engineer, you would be a member of the Vehicle Dynamics and Control Team. The Vehicle Dynamics and Control Team is responsible for developing vehicle flight dynamics models, conducting stability and control analysis, providing guidance to support configuration design and trade-off studies, as well as designing the vehicle flight control laws for the Primary Flight Control System (PFCS) and the Automatic Flight Control System (AFCS).

The Vehicle Dynamics and Control team members have a diverse range of experience, work closely together, and adjust priorities often based on lessons learned tackling the challenges of the aircraft. The ideal candidate for this position has a strong grasp of vehicle modeling, stability, and control fundamentals, understands that application of previous experiences needs to be adjusted to tackle the challenges in this new domain, and enjoys proactively seeking solutions to these technical challenges.

Responsibilities

• Working with other teams to identify flight conditions and modeling structures to support nonlinear aeroservoelastic model development.
• Conducting and / or assessing the results from vehicle stability and control analysis.
• Designing and / or assessing vehicle flight control laws for the PFCS and the AFCS.
• Working with other teams to defining requirements for aircraft operation and flight control function performance, integrity, and availability based on the results.
• Creating and / or reviewing verification tests for handling qualities, vehicle flight control laws and system identification, etc. based on requirements.
• Mentor less experienced engineers in the above areas.

Qualifications

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