Job Description

Industry: Electric Aviation / Advanced Air Mobility

Location: Vermont / North Carolina / Montreal

About:

This role sits within a clean-sheet electric aircraft development programme focused on certifying next-generation flight systems across both fixed-wing and advanced air mobility platforms.

The organisation is developing fully integrated, safety-critical architectures spanning flight controls, avionics, propulsion, and energy systems. A core focus of the programme is the development of a digital fly-by-wire flight control system, designed to meet certification requirements across multiple aircraft categories.

This is a multidisciplinary systems engineering environment, where flight controls sit at the intersection of flight sciences, control laws, hardware/software, and certification. The work involves full lifecycle ownership, from early architecture definition through to integration, validation, flight testing, and regulatory approval.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the development of digital fly-by-wire flight control systems across fixed-wing and advanced air mobility aircraft programmes
• Support system architecture definition, requirements development, and interface management for safety-critical flight control systems
• Perform trade studies and participate in design reviews to guide system-level decisions
• Develop, manage, and validate system requirements, ensuring full traceability across the product lifecycle
• Support system integration activities across lab, ground, and flight test environments
• Define and execute verification and validation activities, including test case development, procedure execution, and issue resolution
• Work hands-on with system integration environments including ironbird and other system-level test rigs
• Collaborate closely with internal engineering teams across flight sciences, control laws, hardware, software, safety, and certification
• Engage with external suppliers and regulatory bodies to support system development and certification efforts
• Contribute to certification documentation and support compliance activities for flight control systems

Required Experience & Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related technical discipline
• Experience working on safety-critical systems within aerospace, automotive, or similarly regulated industries
• Strong understanding of systems engineering principles, including requirements development, validation, and traceability
• Experience supporting system integration and testing activities across development environments
• Familiarity with product lifecycle management tools such as DOORS, Polarion, or equivalent
• Understanding of system safety concepts including failure modes and effects analysis
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Experience using common engineering and collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and similar platforms

Desirable / Additional Qualifications:

• Experience developing or supporting flight control systems within aerospace applications
• Knowledge of digital fly-by-wire systems, control laws, or related control system architectures
• Exposure to flight sciences, aircraft stability and control, or handling qualities analysis
• Experience with system-level testing including ironbird, lab, ground, or flight test environments
• Familiarity with FAA certification processes and relevant regulatory frameworks (e.g. Part 23, Special Class)
• Understanding of industry standards such as DO-178, DO-254, DO-160, ARP4754A, and ARP4761
• Experience with modelling, simulation, or analysis tools such as MATLAB, Simulink, or Python
• Knowledge of avionics communication protocols such as CAN, ARINC429, or similar
• Background in human factors, pilot interface design, or crew systems integration
• Exposure to configuration management and development tools such as Git, CATIA, or similar systems
• Personal flying experience or familiarity with pilot operations and flight environments

Drive the development and certification of next-generation flight control systems shaping the future of electric aviation. Send your resume to e.walker@apera.co.

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