Senior Flying Qualities Dynamics Engineer

Help shape how a new kind of aircraft behaves in flight. Your flying-qualities and test expertise will connect ASKA’s control and aerodynamic decisions to measured aircraft behavior and clear engineering priorities.

Own the engineering assessment of ASKA's stability, cont rollability and response during development flight tests. You will connect simulator predictions to measured aircraft behavior, plan focused evaluations with flight-controls engineers and test personnel, and turn flight observations into evidence that guides aircraft and control-system improvements.

Employment Full-time proposed

Location & work arrangement Eagle Field Airport
· on-site availability for flight-test preparation and campaigns; schedule and travel arrangements to be discussed

Flying-qualities evaluation criteria, aircraft response assessment and flight-data interpretation.

The Flight Test Lead owns campaign planning, readiness coordination and approved test procedures. Flying Qualities defines evaluation objectives and interprets aircraft response. Test Engineering supports assigned cards, instrumentation and data reduction. Pilots/operators conduct authorized operations;
Maintenance owns aircraft condition and maintenance records. Each role retains its designated test or maintenance authority.

• Define measurable flying-qualities objectives for each approved test phase, including response, trim, damping and cont rollability.
• Develop test cards and data requirements that isolate the behavior under evaluation and fit the authorized flight envelope.
• Review predicted response and test hazards with controls engineers, pilots or remote operators, and the flight-test lead before execution.
• Monitor assigned telemetry during tests and communicate departures from expected behavior and defined limits through the established test-team protocol.
• Reduce flight data and compare measured response with simulation, using system-identification methods where appropriate.
• Assess handling qualities, disturbance response, control authority and pilot or operator workload using evaluation criteria agreed for the aircraft and test phase; connect qualitative observations with quantitative measurements.
• Document findings and recommend follow-up evaluations or design changes with clear supporting evidence.
• Maintain links between test results, vehicle configuration, control-law version and applicable evaluation criteria.
• Develop and continually improve flying-qualities evaluation methods, measurement checks and repeatable data-analysis procedures; connect quantitative results with pilot or operator observations and use discrepancies to improve subsequent test coverage.

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical or electrical engineering, or equivalent flight-test training and demonstrated expertise.
• 7+ years in experimental aircraft flight testing or flight-dynamics evaluation, including direct flying-qualities work.
• Strong understanding of aircraft dynamics, stability and control, and quantitative interpretation of flight response.
• Experience preparing test procedures, working in a flight-test crew and evaluating telemetry during operations.
• Experience with flight-dynamics system identification, stability or handling-qualities evaluation, and disciplined real-time communication of test-limit exceedances.
• Proficiency in MATLAB, Python or equivalent tools for time-series analysis, response characterization and comparison with simulation.
• Clear operational communication, disciplined documentation and experience working within defined flight-test authority and procedures.

Rotary-wing aircraft / helicopter experience is…