Furientis

Furientis

Aerodynamics Engineer

Los Angeles, CA · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 69 days ago
PythonC++RESTNumPyLogisticsCFDRoboticsMechanical DesignAerospace Engineering

About the role

  • Hands-on, end-to-end: run and extend the empirical pipeline, calibrate against DATCOM and CFD, and plan wind-tunnel campaigns.

Responsibilities

  • Own the vehicle outer mold line and the design trades on planform, sweep, taper, and area ratios against autopilot authority, static margin, and packaging.
  • Own the aero pipeline end-to-end: the geometry-to-coefficient-table workflow that feeds plant and flight software. Decide when to extend empirical methods versus go to CFD or wind tunnel.
  • Plan and run wind-tunnel campaigns: test matrix, model and sting design, blockage corrections, Reynolds scaling, and data reduction back into runtime tables.
  • Own the static-margin envelope across burn and across Mach. Trade CG travel, fin sizing, and body length against intercept performance.
  • Build and extend the Monte Carlo dispersion harness: coefficient uncertainties, geometry sweeps, noise-source ablations, and the analysis to defend miss-distance claims.

Requirements

  • A clearance is not required for this position.
  • Must be a U.S. Person.
  • You can defend each at the whiteboard and know where it breaks.

Nice to have

  • run and extend the empirical pipeline, calibrate against DATCOM and CFD, and plan wind-tunnel campaigns.
  • For someone who has taken an airframe and its plant model from concept through wind tunnel and flight, ideally tactical, airborne, or missile-class.
  • B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Math, Physics, or related.
  • M.S. or Ph.D. preferred.
  • 7+ years of missile, munition, or high-speed airframe aerodynamics, with responsibility for one airframe from configuration through wind tunnel and flight.

Skills

  • B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Math, Physics, or related. M.S. or Ph.D. preferred.

Compensation

  • America is critically deficient in production of defensive munitions- we currently produce shipborne interceptors in the few hundreds per year while our adversaries are producing offensive threats in the tens of thousands per year.
  • Furientis was started to help solve this problem- introducing a new class of cost-effective, high production rate, interceptor missiles.
  • We're seeking motivated individuals who internalize this problem and are eager to apply their past experience in similar industries (aerospace, defense, automotive/racing, robotics) and out of the box thinking to solve this problem for the US and its allies.
  • The GN&C Team writes the laws of motion for our weapon system, and owns the vehicle those laws apply to.
  • We design the airframe, build the plant model the rest of the company tests against, and write the guidance, navigation, and autopilot software that takes a launched interceptor from rail to intercept.
  • The airframe sets the kinematic ceiling, the plant model decides what is real, and the GN&C software lives or dies on the truth of both.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be a U.S. Person
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