Senior Design Engineer - Airframe

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.

What to Expect

We are looking for a Senior Design Engineer who can take ownership of airframe designs and close the gap between design intent and physical hardware.

Working within our central Airframe team, you will take inherited and developing designs through design for manufacture, release, build, installation and flight test. You will work across airframe structures, powerplant and fuel-system interfaces across our all-electric and hybrid aircrafts, making pragmatic decisions where requirements, evidence and hardware do not always align neatly.

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