Flight Test Engineer
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As a Flight Test Engineer at Applied Intuition, you will lead and influence flight test activities, develop and improve flight test processes, and manage flight test projects across various verticals. This role involves engaging with stakeholders, customers, and experts to ensure test success and advance solutions for challenging issues.
Responsibilities
- Actively engage with Applied Intuition stakeholders and Program Managers to determine test requirements to create test plans
- Engage with current customers to ensure test success
- Ensure flight test programs are adequately staffed
- Provide SME operator knowledge to talented technical teams
- Engage with DoD warfighter domain experts and 3rd party UAS vehicle vendors to create and maintain positive relationships to help find current and future solutions to challenging relevant issues
- Develop partnerships with test ranges to secure access for flight test campaigns
- Create and refine test objectives, and lead test plan working groups, test reviews, and safety reviews
- Author clear and concise test plans, test reports, communication plans, hazard analyses, quick look reports, checklists, and test cards
- Run test missions as a test conductor or test director
Requirements
- Strong leadership skills that can directly influence test programs
- Strong understanding of the US Defense space and ability to navigate DOD organizations
- Experience in acquisition, test, and evaluation of aviation products
- Completed training in NTPS, USAF TPS, Navy TPS, or equivalent
- Ability to create and refine test objectives, and lead test plan working groups, test reviews, and safety reviews
- Ability to author clear and concise test plans, test reports, communication plans, hazard analyses, quick look reports, checklists, and test cards
- Experience communicating between technical experts and vehicle operators
- Experience running test missions as a test conductor or test director
Qualifications
- An advanced (graduate) degree in a technical field related to aerospace
- Experience in acquisition, test, and evaluation of aviation products, and experience communicating between technical experts and vehicle operators. Prior military flight test experience is a nice to have.
Nice to Have
- Prior military flight test experience
- Prior FAA airspace sUAS experience
- Prior sUAS autopilot operations, such as QGroundControl, Pixhawk, and MAVlink
- Proven ability as a self-starter that can adapt and define their role
- FAA Part 107 license
- FAA private pilot license
- Prior experience deploying for flight test campaigns
Skills
* Required skills
Benefits
About Applied Intuition
Applied Intuition is the vehicle intelligence company that accelerates the global adoption of safe, AI-driven machines. Founded in 2017 and now valued at $15 billion, the company delivers the Vehicle OS, Self-Driving System, and toolchain to help customers build intelligent vehicles and shorten time...