AeroTEC’s Engineering Services Department supports and provides comprehensive, full-service aerospace engineering services to customers in aircraft design and certification. The Engineering Services Department is responsible for providing engineering consulting services related to aircraft performance, similarity analysis, reviewing and supporting certification activities, determining test requirements, and planning and documenting testing to meet customer needs. The Engineering Services Department provides several areas of expertise in Flight Sciences, Avionics, Electrical Systems, Mechanical Systems, Powerplant & FIFA, Air Systems, Cabin Safety, Structures and Liaison Engineering. The Aerospace Engineer, Flight Sciences position is responsible for evaluating aircraft stability and control characteristics. This role requires the significant exercise of independent discretion and judgment in matters of significance.

Job Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Review and support Certification Activities, including but not limited to:
  • Supply expertise in area of aircraft performance, stability & control and aircraft handling characteristics to support the development and certification flight testing for both new and supplemental type certificates.
  • Create and review Development and Certification Plans.
  • Create and review Component Qualification Test Plans, Qualification Test Procedures and Qualification Test Reports.
  • Review system safety documents (PSSA, SFHA, AFHA, SSA and Particular Risk Analysis).
  • Create, review and approve ground test procedures, flight test procedures and their corresponding test reports.
  • Coordinate with certification authorities to seek clarification on requirements.
  • Review certification guidance material (advisory circulars, etc.) and incorporate the necessary guidance into the certification plans.
    
• Support Flight Testing Activities, including but not limited to:
  • Plot time history data to investigate and resolve flight snags; analyze flight test data to develop/validate performance, stability and control law functionality and status test points based on test objective and certification pass/fail criteria.
  • Help determine test specification definition.
  • Discuss, write and review test plans and preparation activities with flight test team.
  • Help prepare and review pre and post flight briefings.
  • Monitor flight testing for safety and specified pass/fail criteria via real-time telemetry.
  • Process, analyze, and draw conclusions from post flight data.
  • Identify non-conformances, quality escapes, etc. to create rejection tags.
  • Make assessments to ensure safety of flight determination.
  • Document flight test design problems for long term fix.
  • Generate and review appropriate limitations documentation.
  • Write flight test results reports.
• Complete special projects and tasks assigned by Group Lead.

Travel: Travel to/from internal AeroTEC sites (both in and out of state) and traveling for customer visits as required. Travel may be domestic/international as driven by the customer. Travel approximately 10% - 15%

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

• Bachelors’ degree (or foreign equivalent or foreign 3-year Bachelors’ degree) in Engineering (Aerospace, Avionics, Electrical, Instrumentation or other Engineering field).
• Computing skills (e.g. Excel VBA, Fortran, C, Visual Basic, Matlab, Simulink, CFD, Python)

Experience

• Four (4) years of experience. Aerospace engineering experience in Flight Sciences, including experience in aerodynamic testing and/or design; flight testing of aircraft performance and handling characteristics, including experience with take-off; landing; climb and route performance; static-source error corrections and stall speed testing; longitudinal & lateral/directional stability and control; minimum control speeds; stall characteristics; high speed characteristics, crosswind takeoff/landing and flight into known icing.
• Must have a demonstrated proficient working knowledge of 14 CFR Part 25 certification regulations pertaining to aircraft performance and stability & control, together with the associated means of compliance presented in AC 25-7C.
• Demonstrated operational experience should also include knowledge of test maneuver techniques and build-up methodologies specific to Flight Sciences testing.

Salary: Regular, Full-time/Exempt; $98,800.00 - $178,600.00 – Annually, standard employee benefits. Benefits: Hired applicant will be eligible to participate in AeroTEC’s benefits, which include; employer paid medical (optional HSA)/dental/life (additional family coverage available), vision and 401(k) match for the employee. Position may or may not qualify for sign-on bonus or relocation assistance. Additional benefits include (but not limited to):

• Family LTD; Critical Illness Coverage; Accident Insurance; Hospital Indemnity; Pet insurance; ID Watchdog; Legal Shield; Perk Spot Discounts; travel per-diem (as appropriate); EAP
• Vacation (unlimited PTO based on operational need; refer policy); PSST (one hour earned for every 40 hours worked); Education Reimbursement.

Send resumes to: Shelley Cook at scook@aerotec.com, 5601 6th Avenue South, Suite 410, Seattle, WA 98108, phone: 206-486-1435