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Aether Aerospace

Hybrid hydrogen-electric eVTOL for personal aviation

MACE Modeling & Simulation Engineer Lead

Aerospace EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNewport News, VA, USA$130k - $145k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, operations research, applied mathematics, physics, or a related technical discipline is required; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience developing, configuring, executing, and troubleshooting MACE scenarios.
  • Experience leading technical modeling work or serving as the principal model developer for a simulation-based study.
  • Working knowledge of military mission modeling, including platforms, sensors, threats, engagements, and mission-level interactions.
  • Experience verifying simulation behavior and assessing model capabilities, limitations, and suitability for an intended study.
  • Ability to execute controlled comparison cases, repeated runs, and sensitivity cases while maintaining consistent configurations and complete execution records.
  • Experience configuring MACE output collection and providing documented simulation results to an analysis team.
  • Ability to explain simulation behavior and distinguish modeled events, assumptions, and limitations.
  • Strong technical writing, briefing, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to meet applicable access and data-handling requirements for assigned work.
  • Active Secret clearance.
  • Ability to follow applicable data-handling, software-license, export-control, and customer-release requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Lead MACE scenario development, model configuration, simulation execution, troubleshooting, and technical documentation.
  • Translate approved operational vignettes into executable scenarios with defined force structures, mission objectives, initial conditions, transition conditions, and termination criteria.
  • Establish a common baseline and configure controlled comparison cases that isolate the effects of the capabilities being evaluated.
  • Configure platform, sensor, threat, weapon, communications, and electronic-warfare representations using available MACE capabilities and approved technical data.
  • Assess MACE’s ability to represent required interactions and capture required outputs; identify model limitations, data gaps, and requirements for additional technical support.
  • Develop and execute verification checks covering scenario initialization, entity behavior, event sequencing, engagement logic, and output consistency.
  • Execute repeated runs and sensitivity cases specified by the analysis team. Document observed run-to-run variation, controllable settings, and limits on repeatability.
  • Configure simulation logging and output collection to capture the events and measures required by the approved study plan.
  • Maintain configuration identifiers, model and data versions, input settings, execution status, and output locations.
  • Investigate failed or anomalous runs, document their disposition, and preserve traceability between original and corrected executions.
  • Provide complete, organized simulation outputs and configuration records to analysts for data reduction, statistical analysis, and interpretation.
  • Support analysts by explaining model behavior, investigating unexpected outcomes, and identifying assumptions or limitations that affect interpretation.
  • Contribute modeling content to study plans, technical reviews, verification memoranda, results briefings, final reports, and an authorized reproducibility package.
  • Coordinate technical issues with software vendors and other modeling specialists as needed.
  • Lead continuous business development efforts to identify and capture new work, strengthen customer relationships, and expand the company's portfolio of contracts and programs.

Desired Qualifications

  • An advanced degree in a relevant technical discipline.
  • Experience with Army aviation, aircraft survivability, launched effects, precision fires, electronic warfare, or mission effectiveness modeling.
  • Experience representing interactions between aviation and ground-force operations.
  • Familiarity with DIS interfaces and simulation interoperability.
  • Experience with MACE scripting, APIs, or C# extensions.
  • Experience supporting commercial or government studies with formal review milestones and controlled technical deliverables.

About the Company

Aether Aerospace

Hybrid hydrogen-electric eVTOL for personal aviation

Aether Aerospace is developing a personal eVTOL aircraft called Project Aether that uses a hybrid hydrogen-electric propulsion system and aims to achieve FAA MOSAIC certification. The aircraft uses batteries for hovering and hydrogen fuel cells for cruise, with the cells recharging the batteries in flight, to offer more than 250 miles of range. It features a tandem tilt-wing with eight ducted fans, fly-by-wire controls, and a whole-aircraft ballistic parachute for safety. The company targets two markets: individual owners who can store the aircraft in a two-car garage for about $195,000, and flight centers that would buy fleets of 10–20 aircraft to rent to Sport Pilots, supported by hydrogen fuel, maintenance, and a booking platform, with the goal of bringing a certificated, on-demand personal air vehicle to market and scaling through fleet-based services.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Not listed
Founded
2026

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