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Aerospace Engineer-Aircraft Icing (Direct Hire)
Federal Aviation Administration · Posted 60 days ago
Hybrid Lakewood, CA $95K – $148K Apply by Jul 30, 2026 Aerospace Engineering INTJINTPISTJ EngineeringOperations
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Serves as an Aerospace Engineer specializing in aircraft icing within Aircraft Certification. Plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced engineer
What You'll Do
- →The Aerospace Engineer plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced engineer.
- →Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles, theories, and concepts applicable to solve complex aircraft icing problems.
- →Understands and applies new technologies and methodologies to develop improved technical processes.
- →Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as needed.
- →Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced engineer.
- →Works to ensure standardized application of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airworthiness requirements worldwide.
- →Provides policy, guidance, and instruction to others, internally and externally.
- →Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues.
- →Uses cutting-edge engineering analysis and modeling to support safe and effective certification.
- →Develops predictive models that enhance operational safety and inform future FAA policy, certification guidance, and decision-making.
- →Assesses the accuracy and reliability of computational tools used to simulate aircraft icing conditions.
- →Leads efforts to validate these models using wind tunnel data, flight test results, and publicly available datasets to evaluate ice accretion on aircraft surface.
- →Ensures that modeling techniques support certification decisions and align with FAA safety standards.
- →Considers the objectives of the Aircraft Certification Service and the FAA when developing, integrating and implementing solutions to technical issues.
Requirements
- ✓We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.
- ✓This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications.
- ✓If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment.
- ✓You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).
- ✓Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.
- ✓Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.
- ✓Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university.
- ✓A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 72add7c2-4782-46d8-8a53-656caba58af2
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