Join the Analytical Integration team based in Bristol as a Performance Engineer and help us to achieve our mission of pioneering electric aviation.
What will you be doing?
As an Advanced Performance Engineer you will touch and influence many aspects of the vehicle design, characterising and bringing together all elements which aggregate to create a vehicle with excellent performance.
Working with other team members, you will identify critical aircraft performance parameters and missions and from them derive aircraft and system design requirements. You will also develop representative aircraft performance models for use in vehicle sizing, market studies, system trade-offs, failure analyses and development of certified performance data - we are in a new and novel market sector and you will have to use your ingenuity to set the new standards and methods to follow as “traditional” ones may no longer apply. Also, as part of your role you will develop test plans for component, rig and flight testing which will provide the data we need to develop and certify our aircraft and you’ll develop and use data analysis tools which will allow us to reduce and expand performance data efficiently
You will report to the IPT Lead – Architecture, Performance and Mass and be a key member of the Architecture, Performance and Mass team, supporting the continued development of our in-house expertise, specialist knowledge and capabilities.
What would we like you to bring.
We seek an individual who will thrive working in a small team within this novel and exciting field of aeronautics. An interest in “green” technologies and aviation would be advantageous: here is your chance to influence a new age of environmentally responsible air travel.
We want you to be successful in your role and so in order to achieve this, you will need to have proven experience of working in the field of Aircraft Performance as well as knowledge of existing regulatory standards, e.g. EASA CS23, 25, 27, 29 and preferably experience of an air vehicle certification programme where they have been applied.
An understanding of how failure analysis and system architecture influences vehicle performance and the process leading to an integrated, failure-tolerant design as well as experience with code programming (MATLAB desirable) and with system requirement specification are essential.
An appreciation of the type of performance-related information that air vehicle operators use and how its developed and strong technical writing and presentation skills and an ability to clearly communicate conclusions from large and complex datasets would be beneficial. Involvement in a flight test programme would be highly advantageous but not essential.
Ideally you will have gained this experience from either Aerospace or other highly regulated sectors.
