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Aerodynamics

Responsibilities

  • Perform design and analysis of aerodynamic and aerothermodynamic flight vehicles.
  • Develop new and improve existing technologies, tools, and processes to enhance technology readiness, improve vehicle performance, and reduce cycle time and cost.
  • Develop test requirements (e.g., wind tunnel, ground, flight, accident and incident, and product support testing of aerodynamics or aeroheating and thermal characteristics) of flight vehicles.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical

Propulsion: Air Breathing and Rocket

Responsibilities

  • Define requirements for propulsion systems, auxiliary power systems, and vehicle fuel and tank systems.
  • Define, coordinate, and control the functional and physical interfaces between the propulsion system and the vehicle.
  • Document configurations and designs of propulsion subsystems and components.
  • Estimate or calculate system performance by use of various testing, analysis, modeling, and simulation tools.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical

Weight and Mass Properties

Responsibilities

  • Develop weight, balance, and mass properties data, and define requirements.
  • Provide vehicle or system configuration guidance.
  • Estimate, calculate, measure, and verify mass, weight, stiffness, and inertias of components, assemblies, and completed vehicles or systems.
  • Develop and maintain weight, balance, and mass properties accounting systems and generate weight and balance reports.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical

Acoustics

Responsibilities

  • Define basic test programs for research in acoustics and apply acoustic analytical techniques to determine suppression system program results and adequacy to meet specified and regulatory noise requirements.
  • Design basic structural, airframe, nacelle, and component elements of flight vehicles.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical

Configuration and Integration

Responsibilities

  • Synthesize conceptual and preliminary aerospace and/or aeronautical vehicles and support multidisciplinary design cycle analysis and configuration data.
  • Design vehicle configuration from customer requirements; document trade studies, baseline management, and change control.
  • Integrate vehicle performance characteristics to meet mission performance requirements.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical

Loads Dynamics

Responsibilities

  • Conduct loads and dynamics analyses and tests for new and derivative vehicles.
  • Develop loads and dynamics environments to specify component and system level requirements for design, development and qualification to support the product life cycle.
  • Predict vehicle aeroelastic stability, aerodynamic, flutter, static and dynamic forces that act on a vehicle.
  • Plan, coordinate, conduct and document testing and verification activities to ensure compliance with regulations and system design specifications.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

Responsibilities

  • Design guidance, navigation, and control systems for aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft.
  • Evaluate system-level requirements to support flight control and mission or trajectory requirements definition.
  • Translate functional requirements into specifications (hardware or software) and designs; specify and evaluate systems and architectures to comply with company, customer, and regulatory requirements.

Preferred Majors

Aerodynamics, Mechanical, Electrical, Software