Advanced Stress Engineer

The role

An Advanced Stress Engineer will develop aircraft structures for electric aviation. You will perform stress analysis on metallic and composite structures to support design, testing, and certification.

What you will do

• Carry out stress analysis of metallic and composite of aircraft structures to support design development and certification.
• Develop methods and analysis approaches from first principles, using tools and automation to maximise efficiency.
• Contribute to new technology introduction, material qualification programmes and structural test campaigns.
• Perform dynamic response, vibration, impact and transient structural analysis.
• Work with Design engineers to assess structural options and recommend improvements.
• Prepare structural substantiation and verification reports for technical review.
• Collate certification evidence and support compliance activities.
• Work closely with Design, Loads, Test, Certification and Materials teams to resolve structural engineering challenges.

Required qualifications

• Experience performing stress analysis of metallic and composite aerospace structures.
• A strong understanding of structural mechanics, load paths and failure modes.
• Experience using hand calculations and finite element analysis (FEA) techniques.
• Experience supporting structural testing, validation activities or material qualification programmes.
• Strong analytical thinking and sound engineering judgement within complex development environments.
• Strong organisational and communication skills.
• The ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Nice to have

• Method development, numerical modelling or automation of analysis processes.
• Dynamic response, transient, impact or crashworthiness analysis.
• Fatigue and Damage Tolerance methodologies.
• eVTOL, Advanced Air Mobility or other innovative aerospace programmes.
• Experience across the full product development lifecycle, from concept through certification and in-service support.
• Familiarity with SC-VTOL, CS-23, CS-25, CS-27 and CS-29 certification frameworks.
• Technology development, research programmes or advanced material qualification activities.

Benefits

• 26 days holiday, plus bank holiday
• 5 extra days per year to buy (or sell)
• 5 extra days holiday when you get married or enter a civil partnership
• Additional 4% of your salary to spend on extra benefits
• Award-winning digital health and wellbeing service (Help@Hand)
• Company performance based bonus
• Company Share Scheme
• Company Pension Scheme - 5% and we match it
• Breakfast on us, every day

About the company

Vertical Aerospace is pioneering the way for electric aviation with the Valo eVTOL aircraft. The company is growing from a prototype business to a scaling SME.