Teams at LTA

Serves as a principal-level systems safety authority for lighter-than-air vehicle programs. Owns system safety assessments, certification strategy, verification, and integration across multidisciplinary teams. Applies MBSE and safety-analysis methods, leads regulatory interactions and audits, defines architectures and certification artifacts, resolves complex cross-system issues, and mentors engineers. Requires extensive aerospace certification experience with FAA/EASA and ARP4754A/ARP4761, plus expertise in systems architecture, requirements, verification, and technical leadership.

Lead system-level safety, verification, certification, and architecture for complex lighter-than-air aircraft programs. Own SSAs and analyses including FHA, PSSA, FMEA/FMECA, and FTA; establish MBSE, requirements, integration, and certification strategies; coordinate regulatory compliance and certification artifacts; guide multidisciplinary engineering teams; mentor senior engineers; manage supplier and airworthiness-authority partnerships; and resolve ambiguous cross-system anomalies.

Conduct weekly flight test operations for a sub-scale airship, including preparation, execution, troubleshooting, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and flight-data analysis. Support flight software and hardware integration, flight-test planning, GNC analysis, mechanical component iteration, embedded systems, telemetry processing, and simulation-model improvements. The role requires Python or C++, PX4, CAN, motor and ESC knowledge, CAD familiarity, and collaboration in rapid build-test-fix cycles.