Airworthiness Engineer, Rotary Aircraft

The role

You will develop and author Airworthiness certification and conformance plans for Group 4 and 5 aircraft. You will engage with customers and regulatory authorities to negotiate Airworthiness frameworks and support design reviews.

What you will do

• Develop and author Airworthiness certification and conformance plans for Group 4 and 5 aircraft.
• Engage with customers, end-users and local regulatory authorities to negotiate Airworthiness frameworks.
• Develop Airworthiness plans and documentation for regional regulatory processes.
• Support System Design Reviews and engineering governance structures.
• Ensure realization of customer airworthiness certification objectives.
• Develop, author and maintain Airworthiness activities in a digital environment.
• Provide input to the flight test program execution schedule.
• Develop creative solutions to technical and execution challenges.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related engineering degree.
• 8+ years airworthiness engineering experience.
• Experience with safety-critical hardware and software systems in the Defense or Aerospace industries, specifically crewed aircraft, rotorcraft, UAS (Group 3 or larger) or weapon systems.
• Extensive knowledge of AC 23-1309-1E, MIL-STD-882E, MIL-STD 516C airworthiness, AC-17-01, and other relevant safety standards.
• Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with civil and military Airworthiness authorities (DoD, FAA and/or EASA).
• Proven experience working civil and military Airworthiness processes, including MIL-HDBK-516 series documents.
• Familiarity with technical software packages such as Relyence, Teamcenter, JIRA, JAMA, Cameo, and/or Ansys.
• Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal and communication skills.
• A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States, United Kingdom, or Australia.
• Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening.

Nice to have

• Masters in Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline.
• 15+ years airworthiness engineering experience.
• Systems engineering and Airworthiness experience with large UAS airworthiness authorizations.
• Experience authoring and submitting FAA Certificates of Waiver or Authorization (COA).
• Previously held a position as Airworthiness Engineering Lead or Airworthiness Engineer.
• Airworthiness experience on a team that executed first flight on a manned or large UAS developmental aircraft.
• Experience working US Army framework for air worthiness

Benefits

• Highly competitive equity grants
• Comprehensive, competitive benefits package available at little to no cost to employees

Before you apply

• Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States, United Kingdom, or Australia.
• Subject to pre-employment and randomized substance screening.

About the company

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. The company's family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system.