Senior Aeroelastics Engineer
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Employment type:
Full time
Experience required:
Senior
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About the company:
Using the 7-Seater Lilium Jet, an electric vertical take-off and landing jet, offering leading capacity, low noise and high performance, Lilium is building a transport network and service for people and goods. Working in partnership with world-leading aerospace, technology, and infrastructure partners, commercial operations are set to launch in 2024.
Lilium’s 700+ strong team includes over 400 aerospace engineers and a leadership responsible for delivering some of the most successful aircraft in aviation history. Founded in 2015, Lilium’s headquarters and manufacturing facilities are in Munich, Germany, with teams based across Europe and the U.S.
A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.
As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 800 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are.
You will always act with safety and integrity in mind and embody our core behaviors of efficient and positive collaboration, ownership of time, continuous improvements and, ultimately delivering results.
We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.
Your role and your team:
We are looking for an outstanding Aeroelastics Engineer with a strong background in non-linear aeroelasticity and multibody dynamics simulation to join our innovative team that shapes the future of e-mobility.
You will report to our Loads and Aeroelastics Team Leader within the Calculation Department, working closely with other Loads and Aeroelastics Engineer as well as various aircraft engineers at the interface between Chief Engineering groups and to other Integrated Project Teams.
Our Calculation team works alongside highly qualified engineers using low and high fidelity calculation and optimization methods to ensure our aircraft and systems achieves our performance targets. We use state-of-the-art systems to deliver rapid results and encourage innovative thinking to achieve the best solutions.
Your Day to Day
- Perform linear and non-linear aeroelastic simulations, e.g., flutter, LCO, buffeting, using commercial and in-house developed state-of-the-art methods.
- Develop and organize multi-disciplinary multibody dynamics for loads calculation, stability analysis, product development and certification.
- Define and devise modeling strategies to analyse the aircraft behavior taking into account the strong coupling between aeroelastics and control
- Support the structural analysis and flight test campaign
- Validate the aircraft models with the aid of on-ground and in-flight testing results.
Your Profile
- M.Sc. or Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering or Mechanical Engineer.
- 8+ years of experience in a similar position.
- Demonstrated experience in supporting the aircraft certification processes.
- Excellent skills in state-of-the-art non-linear aeroelastic simulations
- Proficiency in using Nastran, Multibody Dynamics codes (MotionSolve, Adams, etc.) and scripting languages (Python, Matlab).
- Strong motivation to help build working frameworks and processes.
- High level of self-reliance and an autonomous target-oriented work style.
- Target-oriented, driven work style with an analytic problem solving skills require.
- Fluent English language skills are essential, fluent German or any other language would be beneficial.
Life at Lilium:
You are joining us as we are building our global footprint. While the current COVID-19 restrictions mean that many of us are working remotely, we are still making the most out of this time. Meet fellow colleagues via our culture sessions and free weekly yoga classes, or improve your German or English with our free language courses.
Lilium is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals regardless of ethnicity, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
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