Flight Physics Engineer

Avistrat is a skilled talent partner for the rising Indian aerospace engineering sector. We support our partner engineering firms from large corporations to start-ups with high quality engineering talent across aerospace domains.

Overview:

We are looking for someone with a deep interest in the physics of flight and a strong desire to be part of a dynamic team in a UAV start-up.

Position:

Responsibilities:

• Performing conceptual design and/or preliminary design for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) based on requirements from different stakeholders.
• Collaborate and co-develop novel, certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in electric aviation.
• Utilization of our in-house aircraft design tools to come up with candidate designs.
• Conduct hand calculations in aircraft performance estimates (constraint analysis, power level required etc.).
• Work with the manufacturing team to realise certain design constraints.
• Devise testing methodologies to validate and verify your computations/calculations.
• Utilization of advanced mathematical AI/ML algorithms to perform aircraft-level, system-level and/or component-level optimization.

Basic Qualifications and Experience Required:

• Bachelors (or) Masters (or) PhD with relevant experience in Aerospace related domain.
• Minimum years of experience of 4 to 5 years
• Expertise in aerodynamic analysis tools (e.g., XFLR5, Open VSP, XFOIL).
• Familiarity with electric and fuel-based propulsion systems.
• Expertise in flight dynamics and control calculations and simulations.
• Ability to work collaboratively in interdisciplinary teams to ambitious deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with attention to detail.
• A highly motivated and focused individual with excellent communication skills.
• Someone who undertakes a structured and analytical approach to a problem.
• Possess excellent technical writing and documentation skills for design reviews and company records.

Essential Skills:

• Experience in aircraft sizing methods size, weight and performance estimates.
• Experience in optimization methodologies for developing aircraft concepts based on requirements provided.
• Strong basics in Python or C/C++ or similar coding language to develop aircraft sizing codes for aircraft sizing, performance and optimization calculations.
• Expertise in flight dynamics and control calculations and simulations (Using tools such as MATLAB, Xplane etc.).
• Strong base in one or more of the following fields: Aerodynamics, aircraft structures, flight mechanics, propulsion.
• Understanding of fixed wing and rotary wing design.

Desired Skills:

• Knowledge of optimization algorithms and ability to solve optimization problems in any capacity using gradient and/or non-gradient based optimization methods.
• Exposure to working with HAPS
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with attention to detail.
• Basic understanding of propeller and motor selection.
• Demonstrated experience in development of prototype UAVs.
• Hands on experience with usage of aircraft design codes.
• Understanding of aircraft performance deviation from design to actual flight.