UAV Design Engineer
Introduction: Saab UK is part of Scandinavia''s largest defence company, bringing together the best of Swedish and British innovation. Saab offers world-leading solutions and services in defence, aviation, space, and civil security to keep people and society safe. Our UK presence has been growing at pace, meaning we can offer a wide range of opportunities for personal fulfilment and career growth. We currently employ over 600 people across eight sites in the UK, and our specialisations include software engineering, underwater robotics, radars, AI, and armed forces training. The Role: This role is part of our Blue Bear business unit in Bedford. We are seeking a UAV Design Engineer with aircraft sizing ownership, hands-on engineering, and data-validation experience to strengthen our early-stage design capability: turning requirements and CONOPS into sized, analysed and testable air vehicle concepts through rapid, iterative trade studies. This role is central to our conceptual design loop, by early exploring design trade space and rapidly iterating through geometry, aerodynamics, weights, propulsion, mission and stability. Key Responsibilities: Perform aircraft conceptual sizing and constraint analysis to define feasible design points for new UAV concepts.Develop parametric air vehicle geometry and Outer Mould Line and drive it through the analysis loop, regenerating a concept from a defined parameter set.Produce the core conceptual outputs.Run trade studies and design-space ..... full job details .....
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