Flight Physics Engineer (UAV)

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:

This role is with one of our clients (and not with Avistrat) which is an established drone 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.