Flight Performance Engineer

Are you passionate about aerospace technology? Do you like working in a multicultural and creative environment? Then Destinus is the right place for you!

We are an aerospace technology company with the vision of a world where distance does not exist. We are designing and building a fleet of near-space hypersonic vehicles and the associated infrastructures to support the world’s fastest transportation network. Our hypersonic aircraft define a new class of fast.

In your role of Flight Performance Engineer, you will play a central part: you will be primarily responsible for the vehicle flight mechanics, assessing and optimizing the flight performance (from design to operations and post-flight) of multiple Destinus vehicles (from flight prototypes to commercial transportation applications). You will contribute to the multi-disciplinary design of the Destinus vehicles (in particular on aerodynamics, flying qualities, GNC, and avionics aspects) and you will interact with flight operations. You will be part of a versatile engineering team contributing to solving new challenges as they arise

Tasks

We are looking for a Flight Performance Engineer to join our team. You will be primarily responsible for flight performance of the Destinus vehicles in the design, simulation, analysis, and flight testing phases.

Your responsibilities

• contributing to the development, maintenance and use of software and tools for flight mechanics (vehicle modelling, trajectory simulations and optimization), evaluating vehicle performance and collaborating with system design teams;
• collaborating with the Aerodynamic, GNC and Flight teams on the vehicle flying/handling qualities and on guidance logic, implementation, and pre-flight and post-flight activities;
• developing, analyzing and optimizing concepts of operations and abort scenarios, commercial flight planning, trajectory optimization, and flight routing
• collaborating with the marketing and business development teams on joining technical requirements and system capabilities with market needs at flight planning level, optimizing flight trajectories and producing flight routes compatible with technicalrequirements, system capabilities and market needs;
• collaborating with the marketing and business development teams on joining technical requirements and system capabilities with market needs at flight planning level, optimizing flight trajectories and producing flight routes compatible with technical requirements, system capabilities and market needs;

Requirements

• Demonstrated expertise in modelling and simulation of hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicles.
• Experience in trajectory design and optimization of hypersonic and/or supersonic vehicles.
• Experience in analysis and simulation of nominal and abort scenarios: CONOPS definition, aircraft flight performance, trajectory simulation, post-flight analysis.
• Knowledge of ATM regulations and standards.
• Knowledge of flying/handling qualities analysis.

Desired skills

• Educated in an Aeronautical or Aerospace Engineering degree or a related discipline
• Demonstrated expertise programming in MathWorks (Matlab and Simulink) and Python.
• Strong analytical skills, fast comprehension, and understanding of complex problems with demonstrated capability of working autonomously;
• Good communication skills, proactive attitude, and problem-solving skills.

Language

• Knowledge of the English language is required;
• Knowledge of the Spanish language is a plus

Benefits

• Learning opportunities: Language courses
• Lineal organization and flexible working hours
• Company events and free lunch with the team once a week
• Relocation process package and the possibility to visit different working locations
• Competitive salary
• Fruits and soft drinks
• Local events
• Health Benefits