Sr Staff Stability, Control and Aerodynamics Engineer

At Wisk, we're transforming the future of urban mobility through safe, all-electric, autonomous flight. We are a passionate team working together toward a sustainable future, solving high-impact problems that have never been solved before. By delivering everyday flight for everyone, we're making it possible to spend less time getting there and more time being there. If you want to be part of shaping the future of mobility, then read on!

We are looking for a Sr Staff Stability & Control, Aerodynamics and Aircraft Performance Engineer to join our team. The goal of this role at Wisk is to bring experience, skill and capability to the flight physics team working on the Wisk Gen 6 aircraft team that is bringing a commercial autonomous air taxi to the market.

This is a hybrid work opportunity. At Wisk, this means working onsite at our Mountain View HQ or Montreal office 3 days per week with flexibility for the remainder of the days. 

As part of the Gen 6 aircraft team organization you will be a Senior Staff Engineer in the Stability and Control, Performance, Aerodynamics and Flight Simulation group, for a novel type of aircraft development targeting the autonomous UAM market.  

A successful candidate will have direct hands-on experience developing and building type certified aircraft, from initial concept through flight testing and certification, with the technical breadth necessary to interface with all engineering functions such as Systems & Safety Engineering, Hardware, Software, Manufacturing, Test, and Certification. In this role, the candidate must be a highly motivated, self-starting individual with a broad set of skills and never afraid of facing complex technical challenges.

Role Responsibilities:

• Create, improve and run in-house tools to perform linear and non-linear stability and control analysis, estimate critical performance parameters, such as range, stall speeds, optimized climb profiles, aerodynamics characteristics, and validate our tools with test data from wind tunnels, subscale aircraft and flight test. 

• Develop, integrate and validate physics-based performance models that include mathematical models of various rotorcraft components (tilt rotors, vertical rotors, batteries, fuselage) to fully represent all aspects of flight and critical systems of the Gen 6 aircraft to support flight test and certification activities.

• Participate in wind-tunnel and flight testing and analyze data to support performance and aerodynamics database validation

• Suggest, develop, and improve tools & processes for performance analysis and optimization of flight mission planning for an autonomous aircraft

• Author and/or review methodology documents, white papers and/or cert plans to support certification with FAR Part 21/23/27/91/135 requirements

• Engage proactively with engineering leaders to ensure alignment, and clear communication of solutions and issues.

• You will take part in supporting the development of Gen 6 aircraft by ensuring that the aircraft is able to meet product, certification and safety requirements.

Requirements:

• 12 years of industry experience in aircraft and/or rotorcraft development, with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience; or equivalent experience.

• Understanding of rotorcraft and multirotor aircraft aerodynamics and vehicle stability in all modes of flight.

• Experience with commercial aviation development and Certification as well as rapid development of novel, complex systems.

• Familiarity with aerodynamic data base creation and tools such as CFD, wind tunnel testing, data processing, and flight matching.

• Experience with aerodynamic design and analysis of aircraft to meet performance goals

• Experience creating vehicle simulation models that support certification compliance showing. 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• You are excited to learn about the team, and leverage the hard learned lessons of the past 14+ years of eVTOL development here at Wisk.

Desired:

• Experience with multiple objective optimization and trade-off studies

• Aeromechanics and/or rotor dynamics experience

• Familiarity with Matlab/Simulink, Python and C/C++ 

• Familiarity with Jira, Git, o