About Wing:
Wing offers drone delivery as a safe, fast, and sustainable solution for last mile logistics. Consumer appetites for on-demand services are increasing, but current delivery methods are inefficient, costly, and contribute to road accidents and air pollution. Wing’s fleet of highly automated delivery drones can transport small packages directly from businesses to homes on-demand, in minutes. We design, build, and operate our aircraft, and offer drone delivery services on three continents. Our technology is designed to be easy to integrate into existing delivery and logistics networks, offering a scalable drone delivery solution for a broad range of businesses. Wing is a part of Google's parent company, Alphabet, and our mission is to create the preferred means of delivery for the planet. If you're ready to do the greatest work of your life, come join us.
About the Role:
Wing is looking for a Aerodynamics Engineer to join our Aircraft Development team. This role will be based in Palo Alto, CA. As an Aerodynamics Engineer, you are responsible for aerodynamic design, test and analysis for unmanned aerial vehicle systems. You bring superb technical, research and analytical capabilities with a demonstrated ability to get the right work done quickly and effectively, diving deep, producing analysis and communicating results to a broad audience of content experts.
What You’ll Do:
- Perform aircraft configuration trade studies on mission performance that includes effects of weight, fuel, stability and control, propulsion, and payloads
- Identify and validate key technologies to enable future aircraft capabilities through research, prototyping, and testing.
- Perform analyses of aerodynamics, flight dynamics, propulsion, and aircraft performance using both experimental and computational methods
- Maintain and improve multidisciplinary aircraft design and analysis tools
- Support Aircraft development through conceptual, preliminary and detailed design phases including analysis, prototyping, integration, and verification and validation activities
What You’ll Need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace Engineering or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3+ years experience in conceptual and preliminary design of uncrewed aircraft
- Strong understanding of fixed-wing and multirotor aerodynamics, performance, stability & control
- Experience with small uncrewed aircraft prototyping
- Experience processing and interpreting flight test data
- Experience with low-speed wind tunnel testing and electric propulsion testing
- Experience working with low- or medium-fidelity aerodynamics simulation tools such as AVL, XFOIL, XROTOR, CHARM, or similar
- Experience with Python, Matlab, or other programming language
- Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to explain complex concepts and designs to colleagues across disciplines
- Comfort with a fast-paced environment and an appetite for innovation
The US base salary range for this full-time position is the salary range below + bonus + equity + benefits. Wing’s salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.
Wing is an equal opportunity employer and it is Wing's policy to comply with all applicable national, state and local laws pertaining to nondiscrimination and equal opportunity. Employment at Wing is based solely on a person's merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Wing does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding), or any other basis protected by law.
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What We Do
Wing is reshaping the future of delivery. We are an on-demand drone delivery service that can deliver food, medicine or other items within minutes. We’ve also developed an unmanned traffic management platform to safely route drones through the sky. Our service is faster, safer and produces far less pollution than traditional delivery.
