Senior Loads Engineer (m/f/x)

Grob Aircraft SE; Tussenhausen; Vor Ort; EUR 85.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company pension scheme

GROB accident insurance

Subsidized lunch

Zusammenfassung

GROB Aircraft SE is seeking a Senior Loads Engineer in Germany to own the external loads for an unmanned CFRP airframe, defining and releasing flight, ground and system loads from sizing loops to flight test correlation. You will build the loads process, perform gust, manoeuvre and ground analyses, and collaborate with aeroelasticity, stress and flight controls teams to ensure safe, compliant designs.

You will support certification and test campaigns, drive loads iterations to converge designs,

Qualifikationen

• University degree with a focus on structural mechanics, flight mechanics or lightweight design.
• Several years of hands-on experience in aircraft loads and structures, ideally on high-performance platforms.
• Familiarity with military aviation context and composite airframes is a strong plus.

Aufgaben

• Loads Process Ownership: Set up and maintain the loads process and models across data, analysis and interface loads.
• Manoeuvre Loads: Calculate symmetric and asymmetric manoeuvre loads over the full flight envelope.
• Gust and Turbulence Loads: Analyze gusts and turbulence using a flexible aircraft model with flight control in the loop.
• Ground Loads: Cover landing, taxi, braking, turning, towing and short-field operations.
• Dynamic and Special Loads: Address dynamic landing, buffet, store carriage and system malfunctions including flight-control failures.
• Loads and Flexibility: Coordinate with aeroelasticity and flight controls for load corrections and alleviation.
• Interface to Stress and Design: Deliver traceable load sets and support sizing loops to converge design.
• Validation: Support test campaigns and correlate measured loads with models.
• Method and Tool Development: Automate the loads chain to shorten the loop to days.

Kenntnisse

Loads engineering

Python programming

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Fluent English

Ausbildung

Master's or PhD in Aerospace Engineering

Tools

MSC Nastran

ANSYS Fluent

STAR-CCM+

Jobbeschreibung

We are building a new generation of AI-controlled unmanned jets designed to strengthen the defence of European democracies. The airframe makes extensive use of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer (CFRP), which allows for a very light and highly flexible structure, and this puts the loads discipline right at the centre of the design.

As Senior Loads Engineer you own the external loads that size the aircraft. You will define, calculate and release the flight, ground and system loads used by structures, landing gear, systems and flight controls, from the first sizing loops through to flight test correlation and airworthiness approval. Because the airframe is unmanned, highly agile and flexible, classic loads assumptions do not simply carry over. You will be expected to modify them and to build the process that fits better to the new airframe.

Your Mission

• Loads Process Ownership: Set up and maintain the loads process and the loads model chain, from mass and inertia data, aerodynamic databases and structural dynamic models through to load case generation, sorting and delivery of interface loads and internal load distributions.
• Manoeuvre Loads: Calculate symmetric and asymmetric manoeuvre loads across the full flight envelope, including high angle of attack and high rate manoeuvres typical for an unmanned, agile platform without physiological limits on the pilot side.
• Gust and Turbulence Loads: Perform discrete gust and continuous turbulence analyses on a flexible aircraft model, including the effect of the flight control system in the loop.
• Ground Loads: Cover landing, taxi, braking, turning, towing and arrested or short field operations, in close cooperation with the landing gear and systems teams.
• Dynamic and Special Loads: Address dynamic landing, buffet, hammershock, bird strike, store carriage and release, failure cases and system malfunctions, including flight control system failures and their load consequences.
• Loads and Flexibility: Work with the aeroelasticity team on flexible loads corrections, static aeroelastic effects, control surface effectiveness and hinge moments, and with flight controls on load alleviation functions and manoeuvre limiting.
• Interface to Stress and Design: Deliver traceable, well documented load sets to the structures and stress teams, support sizing loops, and drive the loads iterations that keep the design converging instead of oscillating.
• Validation: Support ground and flight test campaigns, define loads instrumentation and calibration requirements, evaluate strain gauge and flight test data, and correlate measured loads with the models.
• Method and Tool Development: Automate and improve the loads chain so that a full loads loop can run in days rather than months, and adapt methods where standard practice does not fit an unmanned CFRP airframe.
• Certification Support: Prepare loads evidence and reports for military airworthiness authorities and defend the results in internal and external reviews.

Your Profile

• Qualification: University degree (Master or PhD) in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or comparable, with a focus on structural mechanics, flight mechanics, aeroelasticity or lightweight design.
• Professional Expertise: Several years of hands‑on experience in aircraft loads, ideally on fast jets or other high performance platforms. Experience in a military aviation context and with composite airframes is a strong plus. You understand how loads, structural dynamics, aerodynamics and control laws interact, not just your own corner of it.
• Regulations: Familiarity with the relevant loads requirements, for example CS-23 where applicable and STANAGs, and the ability to argue a sensible interpretation where no rule fits an unmanned aircraft.
• Simulation Know-how:
• Loads Assumptions: Solid experience in CS-23 Subpart C, programming analytical tools in Mathcad or comparable tools.
• Aerodynamic Data: Experience with CFD based aero databases (DLR-TAU, ANSYS Fluent, STAR-CCM+) and with panel methods, including how to build and correct an aero database that is fit for loads.
• Programming: Strong Python, for building automated loads workflows, coupling solvers and processing large result sets. Version control and clean code habits expected.
• Aeroelastics (otional): experience with MSC Nastran (SOL 144/145/146), ZAERO or comparable tools is a plus.
• Mass Properties: Understanding of mass and inertia data management, fuel and store configurations and how mass uncertainty propagates into loads.
• Analytical Skills: You can break down a complex problem, find the driving mechanism and produce an answer that survives review. You know when a quick engineering estimate is enough and when it is not.
• Team Player and Communicator: You work closely with aerodynamics, structures, stress, flight controls, landing gear and flight test, and you communicate results clearly to people who are not loads specialists.
• Languages: Fluent English, written and spoken. German is welcome but not required.

What We Offer

FLYING AT GROB

• Fly the GROB G115 in your free time (for PPL license holders)
• Access to the GROB TP flight simulator

SECURITY & RETIREMENT

• Company pension scheme
• GROB accident insurance
• Contribution toward occupational disability insurance

HEALTH & WELL-BEING

• EGYM Wellpass membership (employee contribution: only €24.90/month)
• Subsidized lunch (approximately 50% covered by the company)
• Free coffee and water

WORK-LIFE BALANCE

• Bridge days off with flexible working hours
• DEKA working time account
• Childcare allowance

Additional Perks

• VIP tickets to FC Bayern Munich matches at the Allianz Arena
• Employee referral bonus
• Long-service anniversary gifts
• Corporate Benefits employee discount platform