Description
We are seeking a dynamic and highly motivated Flight Test Engineer to support our Discovery business line on a variety of emerging programs. As a Test and Evaluation (T&E) engineer, you will determine and develop various approaches to achieve T&E goals and help guide and perform the completion of test activities. Your responsibilities will include system level T&E of hardware and software, conducting ground and flight testing, process improvement/development, and generating technical test plans for review. You will lead execution of testing at private and government-owned test ranges, work closely with Engineering to discuss test results, collect and perform initial test data analysis for the system under test, and work in a safe manner in accordance with established operating procedures and practices.
Required qualifications include a bachelor's degree or a related technical discipline from an accredited institution, 4-10+ years test engineering experience, current Top Secret Security Clearance, ability to travel up to 35% of the time to support test requirements, experience producing customer-facing test deliverables, experience as a test conductor and/or test director, and a complete understanding of engineering concepts, principles, codes, and theory.
Preferred qualifications include experience working with the Department of Defense (DoD) and/or the Intelligence Community, experience working with First Person View (FPV) drones, prior unmanned drone or small UAS experience, professional experience utilizing data analysis tools or programming languages, and experience with Linux Operating Systems.