Flight Control Laws Engineer

The role

You will take a leading technical role in developing control laws for the Valo eVTOL aircraft. You will work from requirements capture and validation through to design, testing, and certification.

What you will do

• Design, develop and deliver flight control laws for Valo.
• Lead a significant area of control law development from requirements capture through to certification.
• Coordinate technical delivery and interface with relevant engineering teams.
• Develop and evaluate control-law design using MATLAB, Simulink and model-based engineering.
• Work with engineers across flight dynamics, systems, software, simulation, testing, certification and test pilots.
• Support definition and validation of the FCL programme plan using certification experience.
• Engage with technical challenges beyond your immediate specialism.
• Make engineering decisions balancing performance, complexity, certification and programme needs.

Required qualifications

• Strong grounding in classical control theory.
• Extensive practical experience applying classical control theory to fixed wing or rotary wing aircraft.
• 10+ years of relevant engineering professional experience in flight-control laws or GNC.
• Substantial hands-on experience with MATLAB and Simulink, including model-based design and development (DO-331).
• Knowledge and practical experience with aerospace standards including ARP-4754B, DO-178C, DO-331.
• Experience working on an aircraft development and certification programme (e.g. CS-23, CS-25, CS-27, CS-29 or equivalent).
• Understanding of how flight controls progress through design, verification, testing and certification.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and work across engineering disciplines.

Nice to have

• Experience of modern control techniques

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 match
• 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.