Head - Flight Mechanics & Control

About The ePlane Company: We are engineering the inevitable. Incubated at IIT Madras, ePlane is building India's first compact flying electric taxi (eVTOL). We aren't just a startup; we are a deep-tech manufacturer solving one of the world's stickiest problems: urban congestion. We don't just move people; we defy gravity. We are a team of 170+ engineers, dreamers, and doers who believe that the future of mobility is vertical, electric, and silent.

Job Responsibilities:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of flight mechanics and control engineers.
• Collaborate with other departments, such as aerodynamics, structures, and systems engineering.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring on-time and on-budget delivery
• Set performance goals and provide regular feedback
• Manage the team's budget and resources
• Developing project plans, setting goals and milestones, and allocating resources effectively.
• Assigning tasks to team members, monitoring progress, and ensuring tasks are completed on time and within scope.
• Develop mathematical models for aircraft flight dynamics of fixed-wing, rotary-wing, and hybrid platforms.
• Design and optimize flight control laws including autopilot control laws and stability augmentation systems.
• Analyze and evaluate aircraft stability, controllability, and aerodynamic performance under various conditions.
• Create high-fidelity simulations for the aircraft systems.
• Simulate mission scenarios to validate aircraft performance and mission feasibility.
• Develop software-in-the-loop (SIL) test facilities.
• Design, build, and test of Systems Integration Labs for systems integration, software, and hardware-in-the-loop testing of Flight Control, Avionics, Electrical, and Actuation Systems including Fly-By-Wire Flight Control Systems
  
  

Tech Skills Required:

• Provide expert guidance on flight mechanics, control theory, and aerospace engineering principles.
• Experience in full lifecycle development including system requirements, design, system-level integration, validation, and verification
• Familiar with safety critical development including ARP4754, DO-178B/C and DO-254 or equivalent stringent process requirements and regulatory frame works of FAA/EASA/DGCA.
• Strong understanding of flight dynamics, kinematics, and control theory.
• Hands-on experience with flight control system element design, testing and tuning.
• Good understanding of linear and nonlinear systems
• Expertise in handling reliable flight control sensors, inceptors,
• Strong oral and written communication skills to work with both technical and non-technical team members
• Demonstrated experience understanding aircraft missions and translating these into system use cases and requirements for the development of flight controls systems.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge in basic Physics, Mechanical Mechanisms, Electric power train and Electronic Circuits
  
  

Preferred Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace / Aeronautical / Mechanical / Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering or related field and 14+ years of experience leading the architecture, design, and integration of military and commercial flight controls systems which include hardware, software and actuators.
  
  

Or

• Master's Degree in Aerospace / Aeronautical / Mechanical / Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering or related field and 12+ years of experience leading the architecture, design, and integration of military and commercial flight controls systems which include hardware, software and actuators
  
  

Or

• PhD in Aerospace / Aeronautical / Mechanical / Electrical / Instrumentation Engineering or related field and 10+ years of experience leading the architecture, design, and integration of military and commercial flight controls systems which include hardware, software and actuators
  
  

Location: Chennai




Skills Required
control theory, flight dynamics, flight mechanics, kinematics, Electronic Circuits