Flight Dynamics Engineer

Company Overview

Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.

Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.

At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Group Overview

The Digital and Synthetic Capability Unit (D&S) is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.  

Position Summary

Metrea Simulations is looking for a Flight Simulation / Flight Dynamics Engineer to join our team. We are working on the cutting edge of game, simulation, and modelling technology.  This role will require you to be a team player who enjoys working in a multidisciplinary, prototyping environment and expects you to be communicative and independent in your work. You should be motivated to find creative and scalable solutions for complex problems. You will be developing and maintaining physics-based models that simulate the real-world behaviour of aircraft and other entities. Connecting aerodynamics, physics, control theory, and software implementation, ensuring simulators accurately represent vehicle performance. 

What You'll Do

• Create simulation models and technologies in a rapid prototyping environment 
• Research, design, and implement systems and physics simulation models