Engineer – Fly by Wire Systems

Company Overview:

At Overair, we are dedicated to bringing next generation sustainable air transportation to everyone. Our answer is Butterfly, an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft designed to safely and affordably carry passengers over traffic and congestion. Butterfly leverages over two decades of VTOL aircraft development, patented VTOL technology, and flight vehicle experience. 

Overair believes in the lofty goals of sustainable air mobility and we are committed to solving the hard challenges along the way. We are building an industry leading team covering an expanse of skills, talents, and expertise in order to build a superior electric VTOL aircraft. If you enjoy solving difficult problems, and seeing your ideas and visions expressed in flight hardware, we want you on our team.

Job Overview:

We are looking for a Fly-By-Wire (FBW) Systems Engineer to help with our FBW system development.  The Overair FBW team is responsible for both electrical hardware and software on the flight vehicle as well as support during system testing and integration.  Qualified candidates will specifically be responsible for development, integration, validation and verification, and certification of Butterfly aircraft FBW system.

The candidate would be part of the technical team responsible for the system/sub-system level activities of FBW development and would be working with various departments and the certification authorities. An ideal candidate would be able to apply broad engineering knowledge in analyzing and developing solutions to a wide variety of EVTOL FBW implementations and architectures. Understanding commercially certifiable high integrity and high availability control system architectures and system development is important.

This role requires the candidate to thrive in a high paced environment and be comfortable with the design, development, and test life cycle of rapid aerospace R&D.  In order to be successful in this role, you should be capable of working with minimal oversight (while mentoring by senior team members will be available, as needed).  This role will include interfacing with other engineering groups, so strong communication and inter-personal skills are required.

Full time, Onsite required

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Serve as a Systems Engineer for the Fly-By-Wire (FBW) development within Overair’s Engineering organization.
• Create and review system architectures and define key capabilities and performance requirements, as guided by the senior members of the team.
• Support trade studies, analyses, test programs, and flight testing as necessary to validate system architectures to meet performance and certification requirements.
• Support technical supplier management for the FBW system.
• Support design reviews throughout the different phases of development, certification, and production readiness.
• Support FBW design and associated design and verification artifact demonstration of compliance to applicable certification requirements.
• Understand FBW input signal processing, redundancy management, system monitoring and control.
• Support Flight Control System components hardware and software (including Model Based Development, MBD) system-level verification and validation testing including hardware design, integration, and qualification.
• Perform FBW hardware root-cause analysis and support FBW integration anomaly root cause analysis.
• Work with a variety of airplane digital and analog sensors (Linear Variable Differential Transformers (LVDT), pressure sensors, proximity sensors, etc.).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or Doctorate of Science degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) discipline with a minimum of 5-10 years’ experience in FBW development
• This candidate must have prior experience within a FBW development program - rotorcraft or tilt rotor experience preferred.
• Experience with development, validation and verification of safety-critical real-time integrated control system hardware/software systems for aviation, spacecraft, or other similar high integrity platforms
• Experience with: 14 CFR Part 23, 25, 27 and/or 29 Certification, ARP-4754, DO-254, DO-178, including Fly-By-Wire Special Conditions
• Understand aerospace data buses such as 1553, ARINC 429, 1394, etc.
• Understand flight critical systems and redundant architecture designs.
• Experience with FBW integration on flight hardware and full-lifecycle development.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with aircraft system integration lab (SIL), ground and flight testing.
• Knowledge of HIRF, lightning, environmental impact on FBW systems.
• Experience in analog and digital circuit design and analysis.
• Experience in Model Based Development (MBD) software processes.
• Ideally, the candidate has worked through the certification process and has working-level familiarity with both the design and validation stages of a certification program, including but not limited to: requirements definition; program planning; developing qualification test plans; and supporting qualification testing for the FAA or FAA-appointed designees. This includes working closely with company or external DERs, FAA DARs and generating high-quality artifacts to support the certification program.

Summary of Benefits:

• Overair pays 100% of the premiums for Medical, Dental, and Vision for employees and dependents.
• Flexible Spending Account with a company match of up to $1,000.
• 401(k) plan with a 6% company match, no vesting period, and immediate eligibility.
• 12 weeks of supplemental paid family leave.
• Company-paid Life & AD&D Insurance.
• Voluntary Life, Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness insurance.  
• Employee equity incentive program (stock options).
• No cost Employee Assistance Program and Virtual Counseling.
• Generous paid time off policy, including 4 weeks of vacation, 10 holidays, 6 sick days, and volunteer time.

Overair expects to pay: $130,000 - $160,000 per year. Your level and the compensation package offered will be determined by location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.