Senior Flight Physics Engineer - Stability & Autonomy

AALTO; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rewarding Excellence incentive plan

25 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Dental & optical cash back

Pension plan

Income protection

Life assurance

Discounted salary sacrifice

Employee assistance programme

Perkbox discounts

Job summary

AALTO in Farnborough is seeking a Senior Flight Physics Engineer to shape performance, stability, controllability and safe operation of the Zephyr HAPS platform. You will work across aerodynamics, flight dynamics, flight control laws, and simulation to deliver robust, certifiable solutions for a leading high-altitude autonomous aircraft.

This senior role requires experience at the interface of analysis, design, software, test and certification, partnering with software, avionics, systems and

Qualifications

• Degree or Master’s in Aerospace Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Control Engineering, Physics, Mathematics or a closely related discipline.
• Significant experience in flight dynamics, stability and control, flight control systems or GNC within aerospace or autonomous platforms.
• Strong understanding of aircraft stability, flight dynamics, aerodynamics and control theory.

Responsibilities

• Lead derivation and management of flight physics, flight control and system-level requirements with clear traceability.
• Define and refine flight control laws and GNC architectures for autonomous high-altitude flight operations.
• Plan and analyze flight tests for envelope expansion, stability and control validation and mission continuity.

Skills

Flight dynamics

Stability & control

GNC

MATLAB

Simulink

Education

Degree/Master’s in Aerospace/Control Engineering

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

AALTO in Farnborough is seeking a Senior Flight Physics Engineer to shape performance, stability, controllability and safe operation of the Zephyr HAPS platform. You will work across aerodynamics, flight dynamics, flight control laws, and simulation to deliver robust, certifiable solutions for a leading high-altitude autonomous aircraft.

This senior role requires experience at the interface of analysis, design, software, test and certification, partnering with software, avionics, systems and