Senior Engineer, Loads & Dynamics

Otto Aerospace is developing the world’s first fifth-generation business jet designed for sustainability. The Senior Engineer, Loads & Dynamics will support the development, analysis, and validation of aircraft external loads and structural behavior, ensuring performance and safety throughout the design and testing phases.

Responsibilities:

• Support the development and validation of external loads for aircraft structures under various flight and ground conditions
• Perform static and dynamic structural analyses, including modal, transient, and frequency response simulations
• Conduct aeroelastic analyses including flutter, divergence, and control reversal assessments
• Support wind tunnel and flight test campaigns with pre-test predictions and post-test data correlation
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including aerodynamics, structures, flight test, and systems engineering
• Develop and maintain tools, methods, and best practices for loads and dynamics analysis
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers
• Support certification efforts with documentation and presentations to regulatory authorities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in aerospace engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in aircraft structural loads, dynamics, or aeroelasticity
• Proficiency in tools such as NASTRAN, MATLAB, Python, or similar
• Strong understanding of aircraft structural behavior, flight mechanics, and aeroelastic phenomena
• Experience with FAA/EASA certification processes and requirements; Part 23 and/or 25, preferred
• Excellent communication and technical leadership skills
• Support the development and validation of external loads for aircraft structures under various flight and ground conditions
• Perform static and dynamic structural analyses, including modal, transient, and frequency response simulations
• Conduct aeroelastic analyses including flutter, divergence, and control reversal assessments
• Support wind tunnel and flight test campaigns with pre-test predictions and post-test data correlation
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams including aerodynamics, structures, flight test, and systems engineering
• Develop and maintain tools, methods, and best practices for loads and dynamics analysis
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to junior engineers
• Support certification efforts with documentation and presentations to regulatory authorities
• Active Listening: Practice to gain insight and truly understand all project stakeholders
• Critical Thinking: Make prompt, informed and value-based decisions for the project
• Organization: Focus on agenda, schedules, frameworks, and methodologies, as well as communicating tasks, updates, progress, and blockers
• Problem Solving: Assess issues from different vantage points and formulate the best solution in addressing specific challenges
• Self-Motivation: Exude highest level of commitment and motivation to see it through from start to finish
• Teamwork and Team Building: Establish a collaborative culture where people with unique personalities and skills happily work together and accountable to shared goal
• Strong Business Communication: Use the right language, tone and storytelling techniques when communicating, describing, or explaining issues over email, chat, reports, presentations and other forms and channels of communication
• Experience with loads and aeroelasticity of transonic, fixed-wing aircraft
• Experience with the unique aeroelastic characteristics of composite aircraft structures
• Familiarity with multidisciplinary optimization (MDO) and digital twin technologies