Aerospace Engineer, Sr
AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Patuxent River, Maryland
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JOB DETAILS
LOCATION
Patuxent River, Maryland
POSTED
30+ days ago
As a Senior Aerospace Engineer with AMERICAN SYSTEMS you will have the opportunity to do the following:
- Be the engineering lead in support of flight control system development; aircraft modeling and simulation; analysis of aircraft flight dynamics; and ground and flight test support.
- Design, development, integration, and test of aircraft flight control systems and autopilots
- Develop, integrate, and validate models of aircraft flight dynamics and subsystems such as payloads, engines, transmissions, flight control components, and sensors
- Support lab, ground, and flight qualification testing of aircraft avionics, sensors, and flight control systems
- Mentor more junior engineers
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Qualifications:- Active or the ability to obtain a SECRET security clearance after hiring (requires US Citizenship)
U.S. Citizenship Required for the purposes of obtaining/holding a U.S. security clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering
- At least 7 years of experience to include development and/or refinement of flight dynamics models; work with flight test data to include flight test support and flight data analysis, and/or familiarity with aircraft performance, aerodynamic design, non-linear system identification, and flight control system design and analysis.
- Excellent documentation and report writing skills are essential for this position.
- Knowledge of sound engineering practices that may include such areas as requirement tracking, configuration control, technical communication, and/or the peer review process.
About the Company
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AMERICAN SYSTEMS
Founded in 1975, AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the United States, with approximately 1,400 employees nationwide. Based in the Washington, DC, suburb of Chantilly, VA, the company provides systems engineering, technical and managed services to government and private sector customers. AMERICAN SYSTEMS was named “Contractor of the Year” at the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards in October, 2007.
COMPANY SIZE
1,000 to 1,499 employeesINDUSTRY
Internet Services
FOUNDED
1975