⚡ Role: Chief Engineer - Airframes
💼 Industry: Future Mobility / eVTOL
🌎 Location: Hybrid
💰 Salary: $260,000 - $330,000
About the job
This company is a top innovator I the aerospace industry, whose goal is to promote the advantages of sustainable air mobility by developing an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. This company are creating, building, and flying an all-electric aircraft that can transport four people and make very little noise.
They are looking for a Chief Engineer to join their Airframe division to oversee and uphold company standards, practicality, and efficiency.
What you’ll do:
- Ensure the airframe meets weight, cost, manufacturing, safety, and certification requirements
- Drive multi-disciplinary trade studies to arrive at actionable design solutions
- Establish airframe design and analysis best practices
- Lead airframe design reviews throughout the development process
- Review structural analysis results
- Review structural test plans for development, safety of flight, and certification tests
- Act as the primary technical point of contact with key suppliers
What you need:
- BS, MS, or PhD in Aerospace Engineering or a related field
- 10+ years of experience with a BS, or 8+ years of experience with a MS, or 5+ years of experience with a PhD designing aircraft and/or rotorcraft
- Background in aircraft and/or rotorcraft structural design, including damage tolerance
- Demonstrated experience designing production parts on certified aircraft
- Experience with the integration of complex systems into an airframe (e.g. electromechanical actuators, hydraulics, fly-by-wire)
- Comfortable with structural analysis from hand calcs through finite element analysis
- Experience with loads and aeroelastic analysis
- Familiar with 14 CFR Part 23 or 27 and their associated means of compliance
