Roles and Responsibilities: The candidate shall

Plan, accomplish, lead 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
Plan and execute tasks
Carry out the design trade studies
Generate aerodynamic data required to support other systems like Flight controls, avionics systems, etc.
Perform optimisation studies on aerofoil or component of aircraft
Support activities involved in aeroelastic problems
Perform Conjugate Heat Transfer (CHT) simulations
Support activities involved in wind tunnel testing





Perform CFD analyses of fixed wing UAVs to evaluate aerodynamic performance
Establish processes for conducting CFD analyses
Model geometry for CFD analyses in a CAD tool
Prepare geometry for CFD analyses from CAD geometry
Generate positive 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 results generated
Required Skills

Aerodynamics - Fundamentals of aircraft stability
Aerodynamics
Aerodynamics - Fundamentals of aircraft performance
Aerodynamics - Low fidelity aerodynamics analysis
Aerodynamics - Systems thinking
Aerodynamics - High Fidelity analysis (CFD)
Aerodynamics - Fundamentals of aircraft aerodynamics

📌 Lead Engineer II (Bengaluru)
🏢 NewSpace Research & Technologies
📍 Bengaluru