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Flight Controls Engineer

🏢 Vertical Aerospace · 📍 Bristol Office · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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 influence important technical decisions on a novel aircraft programme moving at pace towards certification.

What You’ll Do

  • Design, develop and deliver flight control laws for Valo.

  • Lead a significant area of control law development from initial requirements capture and validation through to design, verification, flight testing and certification including the co-ordination of technical delivery and interfacing with relevant engineering teams.

  • Develop and evaluate the control-law design using MATLAB, Simulink and model-based engineering approaches.

  • Work closely with engineers across flight dynamics, systems, software, simulation, tes

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Vertical Aerospace Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Testing aerospace-grade safety critical software or hardware engineering, regulatory compliance (EASA/FAA), and eVTOL structural integrity.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Moving fast and breaking things without respect for stringent aerospace certification standards
  • 2. Inability to explain root-cause analysis on past hardware/software failures thoroughly
  • 3. Treating safety margins as negotiable to hit tight prototype deadlines
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I bring elite aerospace engineering standards and certification experience to the unique electrical and mechanical challenges of zero-emission flight.

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