- North Kingstown, Rhode Island, United States
- Manager
Lead the aerodynamics group, owning aerodynamic design and analysis across the product range, mentoring engineers, and driving model development and validation.
Compensation
Competitive compensation including a robust equity incentive plan.
Responsibilities
- Lead the aerodynamics group: set priorities, review work, mentor engineers alongside senior staff, and hire as the team grows.
- Represent aerodynamics in design reviews, test planning, and certification discussions under the U.S. Coast Guard Design Basis Agreement.
- Set priorities for and sign off on CFD methods and workflow standards for tools such as Star-CCM+ and Flow360.
- Own the aerodynamic design and analysis from the current prototype through the production vehicle: wing, high-lift system, control surfaces, and their behavior across hull-borne, hydrofoil-borne, and wing-borne ground-effect operation.
- Provide aerodynamic input to air data system specification, selection, and calibration.
Requirements
- Nice to have: Distributed electric propulsion
- Nice to have: wing-in-ground-effect vehicles
- Nice to have: seaplanes
- Nice to have: hydrofoils
- Nice to have: fluid–structure interaction workflows