{"id":3740453,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dominion-dynamics-aerodynamics-engineer","title":"Aerodynamics Engineer","company":{"id":43023,"name":"Dominion Dynamics","domain":"defendthedominion.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dominion-dynamics","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-11-07T05:47:08Z"}},"role":"Aerospace","role_family":"Aerospace","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Montreal, Canada","Ottawa, Canada"],"countries":["CA"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-15T15:00:04Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-15","last_verified_at":"2026-11-08T02:25:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":23,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":23},"description":"Reports to: Aircraft Configuration Lead\nType: Full-Time\nThe Role\nYou carry the aerodynamic performance and stability picture through the hardest part of the flight envelope: the high-subsonic to transonic transition, where compressibility effects, shock formation, and wave drag start deciding what the vehicle can actually deliver in the field. You carry out the CFD work and build the aero databases that feed flight dynamics and FCS models, then you go find out if the model was right - on the ramp, in the test trailer, against real telemetry.\nWhen the data and the prediction disagree, you're the one who reconciles CFD, empirical, and wind tunnel models against flight test, and turns the gap into a design change for the next iteration, not a footnote in a report. You work the trade space with Structures, Propulsion, and GNC directly - aero doesn't get optimized in isolation.\nWhat You'll Do\nRun high-fidelity CFD across subsonic and transonic flight regimes to predict vehicle performance, stability, and control characteristics.\n\nBuild and maintain linear and non-linear aero databases - lift, drag, pitching moment, control surface authority - that feed flight dynamics and FCS models.\n\nDiagnose and mitigate compressibility effects, shock wave formation, and wave drag through the high-subsonic to transonic transition.\n\nDeploy to ground test facilities and flight test sites to monitor real-time aero performance, instrumentation, and air data systems.\n\nReduce flight test telemetry to validate and calibrate CFD, empirical, and wind tunnel models against real-world data.\n\nWork directly with rapid-prototyping teams to iterate outer mold line, control surface, and payload integration geometries off flight test findings.\n\nPartner with Structures, Propulsion, GNC, and Systems Engineering so aero trades get resolved across disciplines, not handed off cold.\n\nWhat You Bring\nHands-on experience running CFD across subsonic through transonic regimes and turning it into aero databases that flight dynamics and FCS teams actually use.\n\nWorking command of compressible aerodynamics - shock formation, wave drag, control surface authority - solid enough to explain why the vehicle behaves differently at Mach 0.85 than at Mach 0.6.\n\nExperience reducing flight test telemetry and using it to calibrate or correct CFD, empirical, and wind tunnel models.\n\nWillingness to deploy to ground test facilities and flight test sites - this isn't a desk-only aero role.\n\nProficiency with industry-standard CFD solvers and grid generation tools.\n\nAdvanced proficiency in programming or working with AI to produce data reduction, automation, and database generation.\n\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Aerospace, Aeronautical, or Mechanical Engineering.\n\n3+ years of direct experience in aerodynamic design, CFD, and flight testing within defence, UAV, or tactical aircraft programs.\n\nNice to Have\nWind tunnel test experience, including correlating physical test data against CFD predictions.\n\nEnough GNC or flight control systems background to work aero-controls trades directly with that team.\n\nAir data system or flight test instrumentation experience.\n\nComfort iterating OML and control surface geometry directly with a rapid-prototyping or fast-build team.\n\nNo defence background required.\nWe've hired people who didn't tick every box. If this is the work you want to do, please apply anyway.\nWhy Join Us\nBuilding something meaningful starts with the right people.\nAt Dominion Dynamics, you’ll:\nShape Canada’s future by building real defence capability for the CAF and our allies.\n\nMake decisions that ship in a high-trust environment with short feedback loops and rapid iteration.\n\nMove fast, field faster, and work directly with the operator - our systems are in the field with the CAF now.\n\nHave an impact from day one with equity, responsibility, and direct access to leadership.\n\nIf you’re curious, hands-on, and driven by the opportunity to make a difference, this is where you belong!\nCompensation & Benefits\nCompetitive base salary and company equity*\n\nComprehensive health benefits\n\nAdditional equity granted based on impact*\n\nWe use AI tools to support parts of the hiring process, including screening and reviewing responses. 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