Flight Dynamics Engineer

Onsite in Savannah, Georgia 

If you enjoy turning aerodynamic data into aircraft models that engineers and test pilots can trust, this is an opportunity to influence how the next generation of Gulfstream aircraft fly. You will work across simulation, wind tunnel testing, flight test, and certification, collaborating with experienced specialists on some of the most technically challenging questions in aircraft development.

Why Gulfstream

Gulfstream’s Flight Sciences team helps shape the flying qualities behind the world’s most advanced business aircraft. As a Flight Dynamics Engineer, you will connect wind tunnel, computational fluid dynamics, simulation, and flight-test data to understand and refine aircraft behavior.

Your work will directly support aircraft maneuverability, controllability, handling qualities, simulation fidelity, flight testing, and certification. You will work closely with test pilots, engineers, and specialists across Flight Sciences, Flight Test, and Flight Operations while helping advance the tools and methods used to develop future Gulfstream aircraft.

This is an opportunity to solve difficult engineering problems, learn from leading technical experts, mentor others, and make contributions that can influence an aircraft throughout its development and certification lifecycle.

What You Will Do

• Plan and support wind tunnel test campaigns, including test execution and aerodynamic data reduction.
• Build and refine high-fidelity aerodynamic simulation models using wind tunnel, computational fluid dynamics, flight-test, and other applicable data.
• Support flight-test campaigns through pre-test planning, real-time telemetry monitoring, and post-flight data analysis.
• Update and validate aerodynamic models using flight data and parameter or system identification methods.
• Conduct static, time-history, and laboratory simulation analyses to evaluate aircraft response and handling qualities.
• Evaluate aircraft maneuverability, controllability, and handling qualities during normal operations and representative failure conditions.
• Improve simulation frameworks, engineering tools, coding practices, and analysis methods.
• Support functional hazard assessments, certification testing, and related certification activities.
• Partner across Flight Sciences, Flight Test, Flight Operations, and other disciplines to solve complex aircraft-development challenges.
• Provide specialized technical guidance, mentor other engineers, and contribute to the planning and execution of important engineering projects.

What Success Looks Like

• You develop aerodynamic models that effectively integrate wind tunnel, computational, simulation, and flight-test data.
• You use sound engineering judgment to turn complex aircraft behavior and large amounts of technical data into practical solutions.
• You identify technical risks early and develop approaches that support program schedule, cost, safety, and certification objectives.
• You communicate complex flight-dynamics findings clearly to engineers, test pilots, technical leaders, and other partners.
• You improve tools, models, and processes in ways that strengthen analysis quality, repeatability, and team effectiveness.
• You strengthen the team by sharing technical knowledge, mentoring others, and collaborating effectively across engineering disciplines.

What You Will Bring

Minimum Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the position.
• With a bachelor’s degree, either 5 years of experience in a specific technical discipline or 10 years of broad engineering experience across several technical disciplines.
• Applicable advanced-degree experience credit may be considered, limited to 2 years for a master’s degree and 4 years for a doctoral degree in a field applicable to the position.
• Experience supporting a 14 CFR Part 23 or Part 25 aircraft certification program.
• Experience tuning aerodynamic models using wind tunnel, computational fluid dynamics, and flight-test data.
• Strong coding skills and sound software-development practices.
• Strong technical writing and verbal communication skills.
• Effective project planning and project-management capabilities.
• The ability to provide technical guidance, mentor others, and explain complex engineering concepts clearly.
• The ability to read, write, speak, and understand English.

Preferred Qualifications

• An advanced degree in an engineering field related to the position.
• Experience with parameter or system identification techniques and analyses.
• Experience with flight-test operations and flight-test data analysis.
• Experience working with aircraft simulation environments.
• Experience with Handling Qualities Ratings and pilot-induced oscillation assessments.
• Experience developing fly-by-wire control laws.
• Experience applying machine learning or large-scale data analysis to engineering problems.

Career-level consideration: Candidates with additional applicable experience may be considered for a higher-level opportunity.

Apply Now

If you're ready to make an impact and help shape the future of business aviation, we invite you to apply. Join a team where your contributions help fulfill Gulfstream's mission to create and deliver the world's finest aviation experience.