Aerospace Engineer

Haast Autonomous is building an autonomous aircraft network for time-sensitive medical logistics. We’re developing long-range VTOL aircraft, autonomy software, and the operational foundation needed to move critical payloads between hospitals, labs, and healthcare facilities on-demand faster and more reliably.

We’re early, small, and moving quickly. Joining now means you'll have a direct role in shaping the foundation of Haast — our culture, engineering process, testing discipline, partner relationships, and the path from prototype to a real medical logistics network.

We’re looking for high-agency people who want ownership, urgency, and system-level impact from day one.

About the Role

At Haast, Aerospace Engineers bridge the gap between aircraft physics, design, simulation, flight-test planning, and real-world data.

We want every prototype, simulation, and flight test to teach us something valuable.

 

What You’ll Do

• Lead the initial conceptualization and design of aircraft based on core design requirements

• Build and maintain performance models for aircraft prototypes

• Analyze range, endurance, climb, cruise, stall speed, stability, control authority, and payload tradeoffs

• Support sizing, configuration, and design trade decisions

• Integrate design for manufacturing principles to ensure aircraft components are practical, efficient, and ready for real-world production and assembly.

• Create and refine 3D aircraft models using CAD tools

• Perform CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations and FEA (Finite Element Analysis) to evaluate aerodynamic and structural performance

• Use tools like XFLR5, OpenVSP, AVL, MATLAB, Python, JSBSim, Gazebo, or similar simulation and modeling platforms

• Support SITL/HITL workflows with ArduPilot, PX4, or similar systems

• Create flight-test cards, test plans, success criteria, and post-test summaries

• Analyze flight logs to compare true aircraft behavior with predictions

• Diagnose issues—whether aerodynamic, controls, structure, propulsion, sensors, or operations

• Transform flight data into actionable engineering improvements

• Collaborate closely with mechanical, avionics, controls, and operations teams

• Document your assumptions, models, results, and engineering decisions