Roles and Responsibilities

As a Flight Mechanics Engineer (Modeling and Simulation), the following work area and skill sets awaits you:

1. Aircraft Flight Mechanics & Dynamics

- Develop and maintain 6-DOF nonlinear aircraft flight-dynamics models.

- Develop mathematical models for aircraft rigid-body dynamics, aerodynamics, propulsion, actuators, landing gear, and environmental effects.

- Perform aircraft trim, stability, control, and performance analyses across the flight envelope.

- Determine and analyze aerodynamic derivatives, stability derivatives, control derivatives, and propulsion characteristics.

- Perform longitudinal, lateral, and directional stability and controllability assessments.

- Conduct performance studies including take-off, climb, cruise, descent, transition, hover/VTOL, range, endurance, and landing as applicable.

- Develop flight-mechanics models and analysis required for flight-control-law development.

- Generate trim points, linearised models, aerodynamic derivatives, and operating-point data for control-law design. Evolve gain scheduling, control allocation, control mixing, and mode-transition logic development.

- Analyze control-system performance, stability margins, actuator utilization, and control authority.

- Support SIL, MIL, PIL, HIL, iron-bird, and flight-test simulations.

2. Modeling & Simulation

- Develop models at appropriate levels of fidelity ranging from conceptual/low-fidelity models to high-fidelity nonlinear simulations.

- Develop and maintain simulation environments using MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, or equivalent tools.

- Implement aircraft, propulsion, actuator, sensor, environment, and flight-control models.





- Perform model correlation against wind-tunnel, component-test, ground-test, and flight-test data.

- Establish model validation processes.

3. Aircraft Performance & Handling Qualities

- Perform aircraft performance analysis and establish aircraft performance databases.

- Conduct handling-quality assessments and support development of handling-quality criteria.

- Evaluate aircraft response characteristics such as Time constants, Natural frequencies, Control response, Hover and transition response etc.

- Support development and analysis of flight-envelope boundaries.

- Develop and simulate failure, fault, and degraded-mode scenarios.

- Support FHA, FMEA, FTA, SSA, and system safety activities from a flight-dynamics perspective.

4. Flight-Test & Data Analysis

- Support preparation of flight-test plans, test cards, and flight-test instrumentation requirements.

- Analyze flight-test data and correlate simulation predictions with actual aircraft behavior.

- Perform parameter identification and estimation of aerodynamic and dynamic characteristics from flight data.

- Investigate discrepancies between simulation, ground-test, and flight-test results.

5. Certification & Technical Documentation

- Support preparation of engineering analyses and compliance evidence as per certification requirements.





- Prepare technical reports, analysis notes, model documentation, simulation reports, and verification evidence.

Requirements

Required Qualifications (Must-Haves)

- Experience: 3+ years of hands-on experience in flight mechanics, dynamics, simulation and controls.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering/ Aeronautical Engineering/Mechanical Engineering/Controls Engineering or a related discipline.

- Strong understanding of Aircraft 6-DOF equations of motion, Aerodynamics, Flight dynamics, Stability and control, Aircraft performance, Propulsion, Control systems, Numerical modelling and simulation

- Hands-on experience with MATLAB/Simulink.

- Good programming skills in Python and/or C/C++.

- Experience with numerical methods, data analysis, and engineering simulations.

- Ability to interpret aerodynamic, propulsion, and flight-test data.

Preferred Qualifications (Good-to-Haves)

Experience in one or more of the following will be highly desirable:

- eVTOL / VTOL, UAV / UAS

- Flight-control-law development

- Hardware-in-the-Loop simulation

- Real-time simulation

- Flight-test engineering

- System identification

- Aerodynamic modelling

- Wind-tunnel testing

- DO-178C / DO-254 environments

- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

Benefits

- The prospect to work on a groundbreaking product that will redefine urban transportation.

- A dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative work environment with a brilliant and passionate team.

- Competitive salary and perks.

- A culture of innovation where your ideas can directly impact the future of flight.

📌 Flight Mechanics Engineer (Modelling & Simulation) (Chengalpattu)
🏢 Ubifly Technologies
📍 Chengalpattu