Who we are:

We are a start-up based out of Bengaluru & Delhi NCR. We are engaged in development of next generation missions and technologies (NGM&T;) towards future warfare needs of the Indian defence forces. It is undertaking research towards enhancing persistence and autonomy for unmanned vehicles and robotic swarms. NRT’s product development portfolio includes a solar power stratospheric high altitude pseudo satellite (HAPS) unmanned platform and an air/ground launched stand-off autonomous system.

Roles and Responsibilities:

The candidate shall accomplish and support activities involving aerodynamic sizing of fixed wing UAVs in the conceptual design phase.

The activities include but not limited to the following:

- Perform market survey and constraint analysis
- Select an aerofoil and planform for the UAV
- Size the UAV external geometry and evaluate the aerodynamic characteristics using lower order tools
- Estimate the performance and evaluate the stability
- Perform and support activities of aerodynamic evaluation of fixed wing UAVs during the preliminary design phase
- Carry out the design trade studies
- Generate aerodynamic data required to support other systems like Flight controls, avionic systems, etc.
- Perform CFD analyses of fixed wing UAVs to evaluate aerodynamic performance
- Prepare geometry for CFD analyses from CAD geometry
- Generate good quality grids
- Generate results using appropriate solver settings with limited time frames and resources
- Post-process the results and document the same in detail
- Recommend suggestions to design team based on the generated results

Must have skills:





- Good understanding of external aerodynamics of fixed wing UAVs
- Good understanding of meshing and solver setup requirements for CFD to address the involved flow physics for low speed flows
- Hands on experience of generating both structured and unstructured grids for
- CFD following best practises involved
- Ability to interpret the flow physics observed based on the CFD results and validate the same with the theoretical computations and experimental results.
- Ansys mesh/ICEM CFD
- Ansys Fluent
- Ansys CFD Post/Ensight
- Low fidelity tools like OpenVSP and XFLR5
- Matlab/Python

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Candidate must have strong fundamentals in the following areas:
- Aerodynamics
- Fluid Mechanics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence models

Valuable to have skills:

Preference will be given to candidate with one or more of the following skills:

- Hands on experience in performing constraint analysis, sizing the external geometry and estimating performance characteristics
- Ability to comprehend the effects of design choices on aircraft performance and stability
- Hands on experience pertaining to activities involving wind tunnel testing of an aircraft
- Experience in activities involved in aero-elasticity problems
- Ability to conduct optimisation studies of an aerofoil or an aircraft platform
- Ansys SpaceClaim/Design Modeler
- CFD Solvers like STAR CCM+/ SU2
- Post processing tools like Tecplot or Paraview

Basic Requirement (education & relevant experience):

- A Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Aerospace/CFD/Mechanical Engineering with a minimum of 1 or 2 years of relevant experience respectively.
- At least one degree must be in Aerospace Engineering.

📌 Engineer II - Aerodynamics (India)
🏢 Newspace
📍 India