Flight Controls Engineer

Our Mission

At Vertical Aerospace, we are pioneering the way for electric aviation. The Valo, our eVTOL (electric, vertical, take-off and landing), 'zero emissions' aircraft will set a new safety standard for how we will navigate the sky.

We won't realise our mission following the same legacy processes and traditions our predecessors followed, instead, we want to 'redefine' aerospace best practices. We are growing quickly from a prototype business to a scaling SME, and the next few years will be critical to our success and delivering on our ambitious goals. Valo is targeting airliner-level safety certification in 2029 ahead of entering service with our airline and operator customers.

As a Flight Controls Engineer, you’ll take a leading technical role in developing the control laws for Valo. You’ll apply strong controls fundamentals and practical aircraft certification programme experience to solve novel engineering challenges, working from early requirements capture and validation through to design, testing and certification and modelling through testing and certification.

You will hold technical ownership of a significant area of the control-law development and coordination of its delivery across multiple engineering disciplines. You’ll have the opportunity to influ