Rotorcraft Design Applications Engineer – Onsite (ESOP)

CFD Research Corporation; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match and ESOP

Employer matching 401(k) and ESOP

Excellent health insurance (medical, V

Job summary

CFD Research Corporation is seeking multidisciplinary design experts in rotary-wing and advanced air vehicle design to support the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Center’s Technology Development Directorate.

You will develop modeling tools and integrate computational tools to support rotorcraft conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design activities. You will apply physics-based design and analysis to estimate aircraft performance and perform trade studies, using NDARC and workflow environments

Qualifications

• B.S. in Aerospace or Mechanical Engineering from an accredited college.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in design of air systems, including aircraft performance and weight estimation.
• Experience developing aircraft designs and estimating performance using modeling and simulation tools.
• Experience conducting aircraft trade studies to define and explore trade space.
• U.S. Citizenship is required and ability to obtain DoD Secret clearance.
• Must be able to travel up to 10% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Assess air vehicle performance and weights against operational requirements.
• Develop and validate new computational tools to enhance the design process of existing and novel air vehicle configurations.
• Conduct trade studies with TDD stakeholders to analyze requirements and recommend design trades to improve aircraft effectiveness and cost.
• Use government-standard tools, such as NDARC, for aircraft modeling and performance assessment.
• Integrate and automate modeling tools for design of experiments and design space exploration.
• Assess current technologies in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to deliver system-level assessments of component technologies.

Skills

Aerospace engineering

Aircraft design

Trade studies

Security clearance readiness

U.S. Citizenship

Education

B.S. Aerospace Engineering

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Tools

NDARC

AIDEN

ALPINE

OpenVSP

OpenMDAO

Job description

CFD Research Corporation is seeking multidisciplinary design experts in rotary-wing and advanced air vehicle design to support the U.S. Army Aviation & Missile Center’s Technology Development Directorate.

You will develop modeling tools and integrate computational tools to support rotorcraft conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design activities. You will apply physics-based design and analysis to estimate aircraft performance and perform trade studies, using NDARC and workflow environments