Vertical Aerospace
Vibration & Acoustics Engineer
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Vibration & Acoustics Engineer
Vibroacoustic Engineer - Designing the Future of Electric Aviation
About the Role
At Vertical Aerospace, we’re redefining aerospace with our eVTOL aircraft, Valo—an all-electric, low-emission solution that will set unprecedented safety standards. Our mission goes beyond tradition, targeting airliner-level safety certification by 2028 and blurring the lines between SME agility and bold aerospace innovation.
As a Vibroacoustic Engineer, you’ll be central to ensuring Valo excels in real-world vibration and acoustic performance. Your work will shape certification pathways, improve structural robustness, and deliver practical engineering solutions under development—where uncertainty is the norm, your expertise turns data into action.
What You’ll Do
Core Responsibilities
- **Lead and support DO-160 operational vibrations and shock qualification for Valo systems, ensuring critical safety and reliability standards.
- Manage, refine, and develop vibroacoustic models to predict mechanical behaviour, internal noise levels, and overall structural integrity.
- Analyse vibration test data from ground and flight testing, translating raw accelerometer measurements into meaningful engineering decisions.
- Collaborate across teams—Flight Physics, certification engineers, test groups, systems design, and suppliers—to troubleshoot defects and optimise tests when data gaps exist.
- Apply structural dynamics expertise to enhance Valo’s vibroacoustic response in design.
- Offer practical engineering solutions when testing data is incomplete or under-development, balancing ambition with pragmatic action.
- Bridge the gap between models, tests, and real-world flight—ensuring we're always close to safe, evidence-led qualification.
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Key Challenges Include
Progressively analyse and solve non-trivial vibration issues as we scale Valo from prototype toward full aircraft certification.
What You’ll Bring
Essential Experience/Qualifications
- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, or applied vibrations (or equivalent professional experience).
- Strong background in structural dynamics with hands-on experience of:
- Vibration testing/qualification (ground or flight).
- Data analysis (preferably accelerometer data and DO-160 techniques).
- Practical experience in aerospace environments, ideally with rotorcraft, eVTOL, or fixed-wing qualification testing.
- Ability to work remotely with suppliers and test houses, having excellent C&P acumen tackling noise/vibration issues.
- Certificationданаlly grounded attitude—some data may be sparse—but knowledge to draw robust qualifications from gaps, pending final tests.
- Demonstrated ability to co-create with multidisciplinary teams.
Nice-to-Have
- Familiarity with vibroacoustic software (e.g. Ansys, Nastran, SIMLAB, MATLAB, LabVIEW).
- Previous review experience with certification documentation, such as EASA CS-Orth[8] (or equivalent).
What You’ll Get from Us
A Company on a Mission
With responsibilities like ours—demanding rigorous innovation, breadth of responsibility and no half measures—we want the best of you to bring the most out of yourself.
- Nuanced environment: You’ll jump into testing, iterate on design ideas, and embrace both hands-on technical challenges and regulatory intricacies that can feel limiting.
- Unmatched rapid iteration: At 5 years from prototype to certification, we’re accelerating industry change—not perfecting the protocols of the past.
- Round the clock support: We’re empowering our vibrant workforce, but your role itself is ingeniously rewarding – shaping the future of air mobility.
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Our Rewards (More) Limited Edition Benefits
- 26 days holiday (+ Autonomy to ninja 5 extra days per year buy/sell at a flexible exchange).
- +4% annual discretionary bonus on salary spender allocation (unique and well-respected at Vertical).
- List of Pre-Tax Benefits for families/partners too—cross-generational or international optionality!
- 5 days holiday for wedding/civil partnership BDSM (by default, we’ve got you covered!)
- Award-winning digital health service (Help@Hand) to cut stigma, overhaul self-care management.
- Tribute scheme! 2 days rated, number dies from your salary outstanding intrinsic goals, earn by both Company performance based AND your own dividends, earn...
- Share Scheme available for all engineers.
- Premium Well-Being Healthcare with paid pension match (5% Vertical/5% you).
- Daily breakfast covered! One of the estate's little perks for those who carry through.
Powerful Disclosures
We discourage snowflaking applicants—we’d much rather hear proactivity over apologies where experience/mechanisms might be emergent. Talent diversifies. As we evolve how we carry out hires, ask for absolutes, you will sometimes find tangentially subjective interview questions peculiar. If you can contribute, speak! (For further technical clarity, visit Legal section.)
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