Job Summary:

• Design aerodynamic compression components and technology
• Analyze component and engine test data to validate aerodynamic designs
• Develop analytical tools/software to improve aerodynamic design and predictive capabilities
• Implement plans to achieve technical and program requirements
• Develop lean processes to improve job productivity and efficiency
• Reviews, updates, and compiles aerodynamic data for application by other engineering disciplines and flight operations
• Develops standardized analysis and reporting tools
• Supports flight test execution by providing vehicle performance and handling quality estimates and limitations to support development and ongoing updates to the Pilot’s Operating Handbook (POH)
• Conducts post-flight data analysis and provides updates to improve aerodynamic modeling, including inputs for flight simulation development and improvements
• Building Computational Fluid Dynamic meshes for aerodynamic force and moment predictions

Skills on Resume: 

• Aerodynamic Design (Hard Skills)
• Data Validation (Hard Skills)
• Analytical Tool Development (Hard Skills)
• Project Implementation (Soft Skills)
• Process Optimization (Soft Skills)
• Data Standardization (Hard Skills)
• Flight Test Support (Soft Skills)
• CFD Mesh Generation (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Assist in developing complex CFD methods, specific to this aircraft, for topics such as dynamic derivatives, hysteresis, ground effect, malfunction modeling, engine modeling
• Prepare documentation detailing CFD best practices based on these methods
• Using prior knowledge of OEM processes and methods, build upon the existing framework to aid DOA
• Support WT activities such as generating test matrices, model specifications, correlation studies and correction factors
• Develop efficient methods for determining corner points in the Loads envelope, assist the Loads team with corrections to the UVLM model
• Integration and assessment of the Thermal Management System
• Integration and assessment of the Aircraft Data System for both the test and production vehicles
• Develop semi-empirical methods for estimation of excresence drag. 
• Apply methods to determine specifications for gaps, sealing, tolerances etc.
• Develop processes for conformity inspection

Skills on Resume:  

• CFD Development (Hard Skills)
• Documentation (Hard Skills)
• OEM Knowledge (Hard Skills)
• Wind Tunnel Testing (Hard Skills)
• Loads Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Systems Integration (Hard Skills)
• Drag Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Conformity Inspection (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Perform preliminary configuration and layout of a new aircraft. 
• Provide preliminary performance estimates. 
• Provide design guidance for slow-speed handling characteristics.
• Provide estimates for airplane performance such as cruise speed, stall speed, rate of climb, take-off and landing distances, etc. 
• Estimate the effect of design changes on airplane performance.
• Support developmental flight testing. 
• Troubleshoot and implement solutions for aerodynamic shortcomings such as drag, cooling, stability and control, and slow speed handling.
• Reduce flight test data to extract meaningful data and present it. 
• Determine what test points are required for the analysis.
• Provide system instrumentation location and flow field measurement error estimates and necessary corrections.

Skills on Resume: 

• Aircraft Configuration Layout (Hard Skills)
• Performance Estimation (Hard Skills)
• Design Guidance for Handling (Hard Skills)
• Performance Metrics Calculation (Hard Skills)
• Impact Analysis of Design Changes (Hard Skills)
• Flight Testing Support (Hard Skills)
• Aerodynamic Troubleshooting (Hard Skills)
• Flight Test Data Analysis (Hard Skills)

Job Summary:

• Analysis of launch vehicle and carrier aircraft external Aerodynamics using multiple toolsets from low to high-fidelity
• Correlation of Flight Test Data to CFD Models
• Analyze wind tunnel test data to identify anomalies
• Select proper sensor and data acquisition systems for capturing aerodynamic data and model correlation
• Present analytical results to the technical community and recommend design enhancements/improvements
• Help Virgin Orbit do its part to make the world a better place
• Constantly learn new things and share them with team members
• Provide external flow analysis to assist in the aerodynamic design of new airplanes and modifications to existing airplanes.
• Track and estimate weight and center of gravity for existing and conceptual airplanes. 
• Use this knowledge of the distributed mass of the airplane to compute inertial loads on the airplane.
• Provide structural loads in support of structural substantiation.

Skills on Resume: 

• Aerodynamic Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Data Correlation (Hard Skills)
• Wind Tunnel Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Sensor Selection (Hard Skills)
• Technical Presentation (Soft Skills)
• Continuous Learning (Soft Skills)
• Flow Analysis (Hard Skills)
• Weight Estimation (Hard Skills)