Lead Flight Controls System Engineer

Lead Flight Controls System Engineer

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of fly-by-wire flight control systems or vehicle management systems development, integration, and certification.
• At least 10 years of direct experience working with flight control or vehicle management systems
• BS in Aerospace Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or a related field

Responsibilities

• Oversee the entire lifecycle of the aircraft’s flight control system, from design and development to testing and implementation, ensuring compliance with regulations and industry standards.
• Acquire deep knowledge and understanding of inner workings of Archer’s fly-by-wire Flight Control System
• Develop and coordinate development of complex system functions, following established system development processes guided by ARP-4754A
• Design and implement requirements and algorithms for the flight control system and its subsystems.
• Design and implement requirements for the aircraft sensors and state estimation algorithms, including sensor selection, voting, monitoring, fault detection, and sensor fusion.
• Perform analyses supporting system development
• Conduct trade studies to optimize design choices and control schemes
• Oversee the integration of flight control systems with other aircraft systems.
• Lead the development and execution of test plans, including ground and flight tests.
• Implement creative solutions to efficiently verify complex systems and software
• Analyze flight and lab test data to support new developments and troubleshooting of existing problems
• Author and maintain the system certification plan
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations (e.g., ARP 4754A, DO-178C, 14 CFR Part 23)
• Interface with certification authorities
• Generate and review system analyses, engineering drawings, specifications, and documentation
• Collaborate with Systems Safety and Systems Engineering to identify and correct any deficiencies in the flight control system.
• Collaborate with Software Engineering to properly implement and verify flight control system algorithms
• Collaborate with Certification when developing certification plans and showing compliance with certification regulations
• Be the voice of the system when collaborating with multiple areas and departments of the company, such as flight sciences, flight test, flight operation, flight training, production, maintenance, etc.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with aircraft or rotorcraft performance and handling qualities requirements
• Experience with modeling physics, sensors, and actuators
• Experience with source selection and fault detection of redundant sensors inputs
• Technical knowledge of electro-mechanical actuation
• Technical knowledge of aircraft sensors such as AHRS, INS, GNSS, and others such as Air Data Systems and Radar Altimeters
• Experience with SAE ARP4754A, RTCA DO-178C, or RTCA DO-331
• Prior work with certification of airplanes or rotorcraft, including knowledge of federal airworthiness standards such as 14 CFR Part 23, 25, 27 or 29