What you'll be doing
As a founding engineer for Aerodynamics at Flyer AI, you will own the aerodynamic thinking behind our aircraft, from low-noise propellers and airframe performance to CFD-driven design decisions and flight-test learning loops.
This is not a purely academic role. You will use aerodynamic analysis to help us make better aircraft, better propellers, and better engineering decisions fast, then correlate that work against real hardware and real flight behaviour.
Our aircraft is a lift-plus-cruise autonomous delivery drone with unusually demanding constraints: low noise, good efficiency, practical manufacturability, and robust real-world operation. We need someone who is comfortable moving between first-principles reasoning, modelling and simulation, design trade-offs, and hands-on collaboration with the people building and testing the aircraft.
In the near term, a major part of the role is helping us develop quieter, better-matched propellers and make sound aerodynamic decisions on the D1 prototype. Over time, that work will feed directly into the design of our future production aircraft.
A small and focussed team has been developing our prototype aircraft for technical demonstrations and seed fundraising. Now in receipt of significant grant funding, Flyer is expanding the founding engineering team with critical roles.
You will join onsite, working directly with the founder and the expanding team to take Flyer from technical startup to global phenomenon over the next five years.