Structures Architect Conceptual Design
- Countries
- USA
- Job Types
- engineering & hardware
- Experience
- expert
- Organization Types
- aerospace, transportation & mobility
- Location
- San Jose
- Posted Date
- Company
- Archer Aviation
- Salary
- $152,800.0 - $227,600.0 annually
AI Summary
Job Description
Develop conceptual-level airframe architecture for a next-generation eVTOL, including layout, sizing, material evaluation, packaging, and weight prediction. Partner with other architects on loads and outer mold line definition, and assess aeroelastic behavior. Generate structural weight estimates and track margins.
Hard Requirements
- Aircraft structural design background at the conceptual or preliminary design level.
- Rotorcraft, tiltrotor, or eVTOL experience strongly preferred.
- Strong experience with aeroelastic analysis (flutter and whirl-flutter prediction) and structural modal analysis.
- Structural sizing methods (classical beam/panel analysis, weight-estimation relationships / CERs).
- Experience with conceptual/preliminary structural and aeroelastic sizing tools (e.g., ASWING, NeoCASS, OpenAeroStruct, pyNastran, SUAVE).
- Working knowledge of composite and metallic airframe construction and their trade-offs.
- Strong Python programming experience for structural sizing and analysis automation.
- Experience generating parametric geometry for aircraft structure (e.g., CATIA, NX, SolidWorks, OpenVSP, CadQuery).
- Understanding of systems integration and packaging constraints in volume-constrained aircraft.
Soft Requirements
- Experience with certification-driven structural requirements for civil aircraft (e.g., crashworthiness, redundancy, occupant protection) a plus.