Aircraft Configuration & Layout Engineer — 3D Packaging

Dominion Dynamics; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Company equity

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

Dominion Dynamics in Ottawa, ON is seeking a lead Aircraft Configuration Engineer to own the layout, outer mold lines, and mass properties from concept through PDR. You’ll coordinate propulsion, avionics, and payload placement while balancing CG and maintenance access.

You will run sizing analyses, perform trade studies, and present configuration baselines across aerodynamics, structures, and flight controls. CAD fluency and an aerospace degree are required, with security clearance readiness.

Qualifications

• Degree in Aerospace Engineering or equivalent with depth in aircraft configuration and layout.
• Track record owning aircraft configuration through preliminary design.
• Fluency with 3D CAD for full-aircraft layout and packaging trades.
• Strong command of aircraft performance: drag buildup, sizing, range/endurance, mission analysis.
• Hands-on weight & balance / mass properties management, tracking mass growth against target.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a Canadian security clearance (Secret or higher).

Responsibilities

• Define aircraft geometry, layout & general arrangement.
• Develop and refine 3D configurations, outer mold lines (OML), and general arrangements from concept through preliminary design review.
• Integrate the subsystems. Direct the physical placement of propulsion, fuel/energy storage, landing gear, avionics, sensors, communications, and payloads.
• Manage internal volume and CG. Optimize packaging density, preserve maintenance access, and keep the design inside its operational CG envelope.
• Run performance and sizing analysis. Build aerodynamic drag buildups, range/endurance and mission-profile analyses.
• Own the mass properties baseline. Establish and maintain the program weight & balance baseline.
• Execute rapid trade studies. Quantify how geometry and payload affect mission capability.
• Hold the configuration baseline. Control and communicate the authoritative configuration baseline.
• Resolve integration conflicts. Interface between discipline leads to catch spatial, weight, dynamic, and thermal conflicts.
• Lead configuration reviews for SRR, SDR, and PDR milestones.
• Benchmark competition using OSINT and market data to model competitor configurations.

Skills

Aircraft configuration

Mass properties management

3D CAD

Systems integration

Trade studies

Education

Aerospace Engineering

Tools

3D CAD

Job description

Dominion Dynamics in Ottawa, ON is seeking a lead Aircraft Configuration Engineer to own the layout, outer mold lines, and mass properties from concept through PDR. You’ll coordinate propulsion, avionics, and payload placement while balancing CG and maintenance access.

You will run sizing analyses, perform trade studies, and present configuration baselines across aerodynamics, structures, and flight controls. CAD fluency and an aerospace degree are required, with security clearance readiness.