Senior Flight Physics Engineer

at  Elfly Group

From sea to sky, from Norway to the world. At Elfly Group, we’re building the future of coastal mobility through the Noemi, the world’s first fully electric seaplane. Our versatile, 9 passenger electric seaplanes can also move up to one tonne of cargo - quietly and with no emissions. City harbor to city harbor? Easy. We’re amphibious too - requiring only short distances for takeoff and landing at traditional airports.
Elfly is a growing startup company with a multinational team of twenty employees. The work atmosphere is informal and playful. With us you will experience startup life where your voice will matter and days fly by. At least that’s how we feel about it :-)
We will make sure that you are warmly welcomed and will help you get settled with our technical team at Torp Airport, Sandefjord.

ABOUT THE POSITION:

We are looking for a Senior Flight Physics Engineer who specializes in one or more of the following fields: Aircraft Loads, Weight & Balance or Aircraft Performance and provides Technical support and responsibility throughout the phases, from design to certification.

• Contribute to the development of weight, balance, and mass properties data for new air vehicle development.
• Focal point for loads-related subjects, coordinating activities with contractors along with developing in house tools and methods.
• Develop current and forecast weight, balance, and mass properties data (incl. accounting systems).
• Assessment of aircraft mass and center of gravity.
• Preparation of Mass Data Bank for Loads/Handling Qualities.
• Participation in the development of new tools and methods for Loads.
• Development/modifications of existing company model to support generation of load cases.
• Computation/analysis of static and dynamic (aeroelasticity) loads.
• Calculation of Hinge Moments.
• Conduct general evaluations related to aircraft performance (Payload x Range, field lengths for takeoff and landing, climb analyses etc).
• Development of methods for estimating aircraft performance for electric aircraft.
• Support flight tests and preparation of tools for such.
• Create formal documentation to include performance requirements, design, test, and validation/data substantiation reports.Failure Hazard Analyses focusing on performance and/or loads.