Senior Missile Aerodynamics Engineer

Overview

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is now officially a 100% ESOP company! We value teamwork and collaboration, and this transition allows us to take that commitment to a new level. nSI empowers our customers by supplying products, services, and expertise with powerful, data driven insights that transform defense systems and improve capabilities.

nou Systems, Inc. (nSI) is here to build systems that solve our nation's most challenging defense problems in an enjoyable, stimulating environment. We're looking for talented builders with high levels of curiosity and extremely strong grounding in fundamentals and engineering first principles. If you're hungry for harder problems, used to working quickly, and excited to take innovative systems from napkin to the field, this is your happy place.

We are pleased to announce the opening for a Senior Aerodynamics Engineer who will join our elite R&D team in Huntsville, Alabama building transformative low cost interceptors for emerging DoD applications. nSI is known for fielding revolutionary missile defense systems, pioneering step changes in RF seeker technology, introducing principled AI systems, and rapidly pioneering novel defense platforms, from space to the seabed. We're small and agile, and ready to disrupt the status quo.

Responsibilities

Our small team has developed a game-changing interferometric RF seeker technology which has significant implications for making low-complexity, low-cost, high-performance interceptors for combating raids of asymmetric threats. Our seeker approach is patented, tested, funded by multiple customers, and in high demand for emerging threats.

You will be an integral part of a team developing a best-in-class interceptor around this seeker as our aerodynamics lead. Starting from your knowledge of both first principles and practical deployment challenges, you'll architect, rapidly prototype, and implement the aerodynamic design for highly maneuverable, small diameter (120 mm and lower) surface-to-air interceptor designs. You will shape the optimal airframe geometries, inform control surface and propulsion integration, define the flight envelope from launch to endgame, and develop integrated aerodynamic solutions that push the boundaries of what's achievable at low-cost in contested environments against stressing threats. Your work will span the full aerodynamic design space - from conceptual shaping through detailed CFD analysis to flight validation. Shocks, stability, moments, meshing, and boundary layers should be your bread and butter.

You'll interface directly with guidance, manufacturing, and structures experts to ensure your aerodynamics concepts exploit our seeker to the fullest. This includes developing adaptive aerodynamic configurations that maintain stability and control throughout the flight envelope and designing robust solutions that maintain performance across dispersed environments, atmospheric conditions, threat sets, and engagement scenarios.

As part of our small, elite team, you'll take aerodynamics concepts from whiteboard sketches to CFD to flight tests in months, not years.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications :

• Master's degree minimum in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or similar technical field
• Seven years of full-time professional experience in aerodynamics and flight vehicle design roles
• Must possess or have the ability to obtain an active Secret Security Clearance

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Benefits

nSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment opportunities at nSI are based upon a candidate\'s qualifications and capabilities to perform the essential functions of a particular job and are free from discrimination based on protected characteristics. For our complete EEO / AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit www.nou-systems.com / workingatnou. U.S. citizenship is required for most positions.

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