Industrial Postdoc Stability & Controls Engineer

About Heart Aerospace

At Heart Aerospace we work at the cutting edge of technology while contributing towards a sustainable future. Heart's mission is to create the world’s greenest, most affordable, and most accessible form of transport.

At Heart Aerospace we develop the ES-30, a regional electric airplane with a capacity of 30 passengers driven by electric motors with battery derived energy. The ES-30 is expected to enter into service in 2028.

Your place of work will be at our main office and hangar facility. This is located at Säve Airport in Gothenburg, Sweden. Relocation assistance can be provided. We offer stock options to all our employees and a challenging and inspiring work environment.

We seek experienced and skilled professionals to join our fast-moving team developing a new hybrid-electric aircraft in Sweden. We’re in a very expansive phase and now is the time to join our team.

Come help us write a new chapter in the history of aviation together!

Role Overview

This position is a great opportunity for you as a postdoc to apply your scientific and technical skills as part of an international team of leading researchers in a research area from an innovative aerospace company with great impact for industry and society.

You will be hired in a permanent position by Heart and work in conjunction with Chalmers University of Technology in this 2-2.5 years project. The postdoc associate will spend his/her time with the Departments of E2/M2 but employed by the company.

In this project, you will lead and perform cutting-edge research on parameter identification. You are expected to publish high-quality, high-impact papers, produce processes and tools at Heart Aerospace. The work will be conducted with PhD students, other senior researchers, and engineers in the team as well as with our collaborators.

You will help us develop and certify ES-30 aircraft. As a hybrid aircraft, with some new and novel design features, this may entail innovative approaches on modelling, analysis, and testing.

Project Description

The aim with this project is to advance the state-of-the-art research behind full electric aircrafts. The intention is to identify aircraft parameters and aerodynamic derivatives using tests in a subscale model of an aircraft. We therefore aim using the instrumented subscale model and a semiempirical model to develop process and tools to perform the parameter identification in the full-scale aircraft. With flight test data and semiempirical data we aim at estimating the parameters such as drag and lift force for robust control purposes (control model-oriented parameter estimation).

The intention is to estimate (with uncertainty bounds) parameters for a rigid body 6DoF aircraft model where measurement data will be obtained from flight tests and semiempirical data. The development of System Identification tools in the context of Aerospace Engineering has a strong industrial appeal as these can be readily used to improve existing models, once flight test data is available.

Information about the research group

In this project, Heart Aerospace and Chalmers University of Technology pioneers to work together. Chalmers is among the top research schools in Europe. The research environment is international and English is the working language. More precisely, the industrial postdoc will conceive help in aero/fluid dynamics experts (Department M2) and run robust control oriented model parameter estimation techniques (Department E2).