A career at Lilium is for those who want to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology, and customer experience.

As part of a team, you will tackle challenges and deliver something that has never been done before. By joining Lilium you will have the opportunity to work with a world-class entrepreneurial team of more than 800 people who are as passionate about changing the world as you are.

We thrive on diversity and creating an inclusive culture, with more than 50 nationalities currently working hard to bring our vision of a sustainable world to life.

The Role:

We are looking for an outstanding Fatigue and Damage Tolerance engineer with a strong background in stress analysis in airframes to join our innovative team and help us shape the future of urban e-mobility.

In this position, you will have the exciting opportunity to work within the rapidly growing Structural Analysis Team as part of the Design and Aerostructures Function. You will report to a Structural Analysis Team Lead.

Lilium welcomes people from all over the world. We are a multinational company and happy to support our new top talents with relocation. We have helped our new hires to meet their Visa criteria and successfully settle in Munich.

Your Day to Day:

• Develop Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analysis methods tailored for optimized sizing of the metallic and composite airframe structures.
• Establish structured guidelines at different levels; from top level instructions down to “how to” documents for the performance of the analyses.
• Develop approaches and strategies for the validation roadmap, in collaboration with the Stress and Integrated product teams.
• Define test needs, perform test result evaluations.
• Create clear and concise technical reports and documentation
• Work closely with your Team Lead, Stress Engineers, Manufacturing and Testing throughout the entire product development process to develop airframe structures with exceptional performance

Your profile:

• Engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering or related field is required
• 8+ years of experience in Stress, Fatigue and Damage Tolerance analysis, with application to aircraft primary structures
• Knowledge of stress & damage tolerance analysis methods following established standards for CFRP and metallic structures
• In-depth understanding of the loading scenarios and mechanical behaviour of aircraft structures
• Knowledge of related coupon test standards. Component or full scale level test experience is a strong plus
• Working experience with the commercial FE code OptiStruct, and corresponding pre- and post-processing tools (HyperMesh and HyperView)
• Scripting experience in programming languages such as Python, MATLAB, Bash Scripting, VBA etc.
• Motivated, initiative and driven problem-solving attitude are critical as well as a high level of self-reliance and an autonomous target-oriented work style
• Fluent English language skills are essential, fluent German or any other language would be beneficial

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