Jobs at Vertical Aerospace

Lead development, integration, validation, and deployment of Flight Control System models into aircraft simulations. Define modelling strategy, ensure traceability and fidelity across desktop, real-time, and HIL environments, support handling qualities, flight test preparation, certification activities, and drive modelling standards and governance.

This internship involves designing and simulating flight control laws, analyzing data, validating control functions, and collaborating with teams to enhance aircraft performance.

Lead and manage the aircraft type certification program from design through type certification, liaise with regulators and suppliers, define certification basis and compliance methods, oversee tests and inspections, maintain configuration and traceability, mentor certification team, mitigate risks to schedule, and support continued airworthiness and modifications post-certification.

Lead the development of a scalable PMO, ensuring alignment across all functions to deliver complex programmes and governance frameworks, and build a high-performing team.

The Configuration Controls Manager will oversee configuration management for aerospace programmes, ensuring governance, compliance, and effective change control. Responsibilities include improving processes, managing engineering baselines, and facilitating communication among stakeholders.

The Head of Engineering Capability oversees engineering frameworks, performance governance, and capability development, ensuring compliance with certification standards and operational excellence.

Lead and own the flight test function: set strategy, ensure technically sound and safe flight test execution, align tests to certification, manage governance, data integrity, regulatory interface, and build a scalable flight test organisation to deliver envelope expansion and certification evidence.

Lead vibroacoustic work for the Valo eVTOL: define DO-160-like vibration qualification, develop and maintain vibroacoustic models, analyse ground and flight vibration data, support test planning and suppliers, and apply structural dynamics to reduce internal noise and improve vibration performance for certification.

Lead the development and analysis of flight dynamics models for an eVTOL aircraft, ensuring performance and safety through collaboration and mentoring.

The FP&A Analyst will support financial reporting, forecasting, budget preparation, and data analysis, collaborating with various teams to drive financial performance.

As Principal Propeller Engineer, you will lead propeller system design, certification, integration, and mentor engineers, ensuring compliance and performance.

Lead the development and certification of aircraft loads and aeroelastic models, ensuring compliance with certification requirements and mentoring engineers in the Loads & Dynamics discipline.

Lead the verification and validation strategy for BMS and high-voltage power systems, managing automated HIL test environments, ensuring compliance with certification standards, and developing a team of V&V engineers.

As Principal Performance Engineer, you will manage aircraft performance figures, lead certification strategy, and ensure compliance with aviation authorities.

Lead definition, integration and certification of Communication, Navigation, Surveillance and Maintenance (CNS/M) avionics. Own requirements, architecture, interfaces, test procedures and certification artifacts; manage suppliers, support ground and flight testing, lead verification activities, and drive continuous improvement for certifiable, safety-critical eVTOL systems.

As a Data Architect, you will define and maintain the data architecture, ensuring data consistency, designing models, and supporting hands-on pipeline development while collaborating with teams across the organization.

The Head of Customer - Defence will lead commercial strategies for defence opportunities, secure government funding, develop partnerships, and drive Vertical Aerospace's market entry for hybrid aircraft in defense sectors.

The Senior Electric Propulsion Unit Integration Engineer will integrate electric propulsion systems into aircraft, ensuring safe installation, managing configurations, and supporting certification activities while collaborating across multiple disciplines.

As Senior Supplier Quality Engineer, lead supplier quality strategy, improve processes, develop supplier partnerships, manage risks, and enhance supplier performance in aerospace.