Senior Flight Test Engineer

Young Community Developers • Irvine, CA

1d • $120,000 - $160,000 • Onsite

About The Position

DZYNE Technologies is building a highly skilled team that thrives in the design, development, test and manufacturing of intelligent, autonomous vehicles. The candidate will work in a vehicle development and manufacturing environment where projects are realized with the highest degree of commitment to quality and efficiency. The successful candidate will be a highly organized self-starter who has direct, hands-on experience planning and executing flight tests as well as leading flight test teams. The candidate must have solid technical abilities, able to quickly analyze technical difficulties, isolate problems to the component level, and promptly resolve the problem as necessary.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant work related to flight test operations.
• Must have a strong technical background, ability to read and interpret engineering design artifacts, and customer requirements.
• Self-driven and interfaces well with teams of varied disciplines.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate of an internationally recognized test pilot school.
• Experience in US Armed Forces.
• Experience in aviation as a private pilot or remote pilot (Part 107).

Responsibilities

• Provide technical oversight and leadership in integrating flight test objectives, equipment, and test assets, skills/resources, and planning T&E budgets and schedules.
• Interact with certification engineers to ensure all program’s operational certification standards are achieved and addressed.
• Author test and safety plans for a variety of programs and customers.
• Assist in standardizing flight test planning products, and act as a mentor for new flight test engineers.
• Act as test director of test conductor for flight test events.
• Research, select, and source instrumentation components as part of a test system or unit under test.
• Develop and perform acceptance tests for a variety of products.
• Develop test cards for applicable events.
• Develop data management and analysis plans for testing and ensure the test data are collected, stored, processed, and analyzed to inform future testing and product development.
• Author test reports for daily events and final deliverables to internal and external customers.
• Follow specific tool control, FOD control, and safety guidelines and policies.
• Perform other duties as directed by supervision and management for the benefit of the company, program, or employee(s).

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits package.
• Base dental, vision, life, accident, disability, and other core benefits are fully covered by DZYNE.
• Paid time off and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with an employer match and immediate vesting.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior