Otto Aviation
Manager, Flight Sciences
Jacksonville, FL · Contract
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About the role
- Promote a culture of technical excellence, data integrity, and collaborative problem solving
- Plan and execute Flight Sciences deliverables aligned with program schedule, budget, and technical maturity targets
- Ensure Flight Sciences outputs are clearly communicated, traceable, and integrated into program decisions
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day operations of the Flight Sciences team, including staffing, hiring, mentoring, and performance management
- Maintain and continuously improve Flight Sciences tools, processes, best practices, and technology/capability roadmaps
- Direct aerodynamic design, configuration development, and optimization using first-principles physics and simulation-driven processes
- Support engineering trade studies and configuration decisions with defensible, data driven analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in flight sciences, aerodynamics, aircraft performance, or flight mechanics, including leadership experience
- Experience leading technical teams and delivering engineering products to schedule
- Experience supporting flight test campaigns and correlating analysis to flight data
- Experience supporting flight sciences related activities as part or certification programs
- Experience working with civil certification standards (e.g., FAA Part 23 or Part 25)
- Strong understanding of aerodynamic theory
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in aerospace engineering
- 15+ years of experience in flight sciences disciplines
- Experience with wind tunnel and flight test correlation, aircraft configuration development, and clean-sheet or experimental aircraft
- Background in high altitude, high speed, or transonic aircraft
- Experience with experimental or first-of-type aircraft
- Experience with FAA Part 23 or Part 25 certification requirements
- Interpersonal Skills
- Active Listening: Practice gaining insight and understanding of all project stakeholders
Skills
- Focus on agenda, schedules, frameworks, and methodologies, as well as communicating tasks, updates, progress, and blockers
- Establish a collaborative culture where people with unique personalities and skills happily work together and accountable to shared goals
Benefits
- Depending on seniority and role, some roles qualify for potential bonuses and stock options.
- We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in every aspect of our hiring process.
- All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.
Company info
- We are seeking a Manager of Flight Sciences to lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for the technical definition, execution, and certification of all flight sciences disciplines, including applied aerodynamics
- The more inclusive we are, the stronger we become.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.
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