Lead the Flight Control Systems (FCS) Integrated Product Team (IPT) and own scope, schedule, cost, quality, and technical delivery aligned with aircraft program milestones. Drive FCS architecture, control law development, flight dynamics, system integration, testing, safety, and certification activities across aircraft development programs. Coordinate with Aerodynamics, Structures, Avionics, Software, Systems, Integration, V&V;, customers, suppliers, and program stakeholders.

Lead distributed engineering teams while managing technical risks, dependencies, configuration control, and engineering change activities.

Key Skills

- Flight Control Systems development and architecture, including fly-by-wire/fly-by-light systems, actuation systems, sensors, redundancy management, fail-safe, fail-operational, fault-tolerant, and redundant architectures.
- Flight dynamics and control, including control law design and development, stability and control analysis, flight dynamics modeling, gain scheduling, MATLAB/Simulink, and aircraft-level FCS integration.
- Aircraft NPD and system development, including SRDs, control laws, simulation models, ICDs, MIL/SIL/HIL integration and validation, Iron Bird testing, ground testing, flight test support, and integration with avionics, sensors, actuation systems, cockpit interfaces, ARINC, and AFDX interfaces.
- System safety, certification, and compliance, including ARP4754A, ARP4761, DO-178C, DO-254, FHA, FMEA, FTA, PSAC, PHAC, SAS, compliance matrices, compliance reports, FAA, EASA, and DGCA certification activities.

Required Qualifications





- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Control Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
- 12–18+ years of aerospace/aviation experience with strong Flight Control Systems development experience, aircraft NPD/recent aircraft development experience, flight dynamics and control theory, control law design and development, fly-by-wire architecture, and MATLAB/Simulink.
- Proven experience leading FCS IPTs or large cross-functional engineering teams and coordinating with Aerodynamics, Structures, Avionics, Software, Systems, Integration, V&V;, customers, suppliers, and program stakeholders.
- Experience with ARP4754A/ARP4761, aircraft certification, DO-178C/DO-254 certification environments, configuration control, engineering change management, technical risk management, and aircraft-level system development lifecycle activities.

Additional Skills

- Stability and control analysis, flight dynamics modeling, gain scheduling, redundancy management, actuation systems and sensors, MIL/SIL/HIL, Iron Bird testing, ground and flight testing, and fault-tolerant control systems.
- eVTOL, UAV, Advanced Air Mobility, autonomous flight control systems, digital twins, Model-Based Design/MBD, and fly-by-light systems.
- MBSE using Cameo/Rhapsody and PLM using 3DX/Teamcenter, along with onsite-offshore or distributed engineering team management.
- RFQ and proposal support, technical solutioning, effort estimation, technical reviews, performance reporting, risk and issue mitigation, and technical stakeholder communication.

📌 Flight Control Systems (FCS) IPT Lead (Montreal)
🏢 Intellectt
📍 Montreal