Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

As the Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer of our newly created aircraft, you will lead efforts for instrumentation design, implementation, and troubleshooting of ground test articles and flight test vehicles. You will be also be responsible for developing and maintaining the ground control station and working with suppliers to develop state of the art test systems.

Duties :

Designing and developing flight test instrumentation and data acquisition systems and equations

Designing and developing instrumentation systems for research and development laboratories

Devising creative ways to test novel engineering designs.

Generating software programs to support test automation and data analysis.

Coordinating with external equipment suppliers

Providing engineering and technical support as part of the test team

Setup and operation of the ground based Command & Control and Telemetry systems

Ensuring instrumentation is properly installed and calibrated

Participating in hands on aircraft troubleshooting efforts.

Other duties as directed

Requirements : Bachelor's degree

5+ years of experience in flight or ground test instrumentation engineering

Experience in flight or ground test instrumentation engineering, software engineering, or electrical engineering

Outstanding written and oral communications skills

Ability to work within small teams

Other Job-Specific

Experience solving complex problems across multiple systems

Ability to work in highly dynamic, research and development environments

A plus :

Experience using IADS for instrumentation implementation and troubleshooting

Unmanned aircraft flight test experience

Electric Propulsion flight test experience

Previous experience developing UAV command and control systems

Experience developing software in a test environment

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