FQS Principal Design Engineer Modelling and Simulation (Aerospace)

Location: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Company

ADASI is an aerospace company developing advanced aviation and airspace solutions focused on safety, efficiency, and sustainability.

What you will do

• Apply aerodynamic analysis to the design and development of aircraft, missiles, unmanned vehicles, and major aerodynamic components.
• Develop and interpret CFD models, lower-order aerodynamic tools, empirical methods, aerodynamic databases, and structured datasets.
• Analyze lift, drag, stability, control, interference, trim, configuration development, and aerodynamic design across relevant flight regimes.
• Define, support, and interpret wind-tunnel tests and correlate analytical, CFD, wind-tunnel, and flight-test data.
• Support multidisciplinary design trades, aerospace lifecycle reviews, and engineering workflow automation.
• Lead significant aerodynamic work packages and prepare controlled reports, test plans, test reports, and substantiation evidence.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, aeronautical, mechanical, applied mathematics, physics, computational engineering, or a related discipline.
• Typically 10 or more years of relevant aerospace or applied fluid-dynamics experience.
• Substantial experience with subsonic, transonic, supersonic, or hypersonic aerodynamics and complete-vehicle or major-component development.
• Practical knowledge of CFD tools, geometry and meshing, post-processing, scripting, automation, CAD, and geometry-management processes.
• Experience assessing mesh sensitivity, convergence, turbulence modeling, numerical uncertainty, and model-form uncertainty.
• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English is required.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree or PhD in aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, aircraft design, experimental aerodynamics, or a related field.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, C/C++, optimization frameworks, and equivalent engineering environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an aerospace environment focused on aviation and airspace innovation.
• Contribute to solutions designed to improve safety, efficiency, and sustainability.
• Collaborate across aerodynamic analysis, simulation, testing, and multidisciplinary engineering activities.