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Flight Dynamics Engineer- Virtual Test Environment

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Overview

About Merlin: Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest…

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You are an experienced aircraft simulation engineer who wants to contribute to aircraft autonomy by making an exceptional state-of-the-art simulation environment.

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About Merlin:

Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.

About you:

You are an experienced aircraft simulation engineer who wants to contribute to aircraft autonomy by making an exceptional state-of-the-art simulation environment. You have a strong understanding of aircraft dynamics and a strong passion for aircraft simulation and aviation. You understand how the aviation industry and aircraft certification processes work and can learn quickly to adapt to the needs of the company.

Develop, improve, and update aircraft models that simulate aerodynamics, control systems, servos, brakes, landing gear, etc.

Support flight test planning, instrumentation requirements, and test data analysis to gather quality data for simulation development and validation.

Write software to support continuous improvements to our existing simulation.

Collaborate with virtual test environment users to ensure that their objectives are met.

Support expansion of our virtual test environment to include additional advancements needed to support our customers

5+ years of relevant experience working with aircraft dynamics and aircraft simulation

Proficiency in MATLAB and Simulink with some basic knowledge of C, C++, and python

An understanding of conventional aircraft simulation modeling techniques

Experience with flight test

Experience with aircraft certification

BS in Aerospace or Mechanical engineering

MS/PhD in Aerospace Engineering focusing on aircraft flight dynamics