Public summary
Lead and manage a team of flight test engineers overseeing certification flight testing of UAV and manned aircraft systems. Plan, estimate, and manage flight testing projects, ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies such as FAA and EASA. Collaborate across certification, hardware, and software teams to improve flight test processes and ensure safety and effectiveness of test flights. Requires strong leadership experience, technical expertise in flight testing and aviation engineering, and familiarity with test-driven development and relevant flight technologies.
Location and work setup
- Location
- Weiterstadt
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- German requirement signal
- No German Required Detected
- Detected job language
- English
Responsibilities
Lead and manage a team of flight test engineers. Guide and oversee flight testing activities for product certification with regulatory bodies such as FAA, ANAC, JCAB, and EASA. Participate in product increment planning to align flight test goals. Plan, estimate, and manage flight testing tasks, resources, timelines, and logistics. Apply expertise to ensure safe and effective flight tests with proper instrumentation. Review and approve flight test plans, cards, and reports. Collaborate closely with certification, ground test, software, hardware teams and continuously improve flight test processes.
Qualifications
Master's degree in aviation engineering, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or related field. Over 10 years' experience in manned or unmanned flight testing, with more than 5 years in test management. Proven leadership in managing technical teams. Experience working with certification flight testing and regulatory authorities including ANAC, FAA, EASA, JCAB. Knowledge of test-driven development, experience-based testing, iterative V-model production cycles. Familiarity with Jira, Visure requirement tools, PX-4 auto flight controllers, eVTOL UAVs and manned aircraft systems. A valid A1/A3 drone pilot license is required.