Flight Test Engineer / Test Director

Duty location is Las Vegas, NV; travel to other work locations will be required. U.S. Citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Work with customers to plan, execute, and report on ground and flight test events
• Plan and design test events to obtain necessary data to address flight test objectives
• Develop technically adequate test objectives, data requirements, data collection methodologies, and go/no-go criteria to inform strategic platform requirements and modeling and simulation needs
• Perform reviews of aircraft specification requirements to ensure the data management and analysis plan (DMAP) provides proper data collection for real-time and post-mission data processing and evaluation
• Execute safe, secure, effective, and efficient flight test events
• Collaborate with data analysts to oversee the data analysis process and build actionable executive-level test reports
• Make quick decisions during test missions, direct real-time aircraft corrections, and coordinate rapidly with test team members to adjust the mission flow as necessary to meet mission data collection goals
• Conduct thorough mission debriefs to ensure all relevant mission events are understood and to identify lessons learned to be applied to future missions
• Assist in data analysis and review as required to facilitate correct interpretation of the mission data
• Support the creation of test engineering documentation: Test plans, Safety Packages, Data Analysis Management Plans, Technical Review Board Briefs, Safety Review Board Briefs, Test Readiness Briefs, Test Cards, and Test Reports
• Capable and willing to work in a remote environment with a highly motivated team

Requirements

• Bachelor and/or Master of Science in Aeronautical/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Math, Computer Science, or Physics
• Minimum of 10+ years of flight test experience
• Have a "Team" mentality towards providing integrated engineering support for design reviews, test planning working groups, test card preparation, disciplined test execution, and collaborate/author on post-flight reports
• Work well in a team environment as well as independently and have above average communication and writing skills
• Excellent communication, organization, analytical, and leadership skills, attention to detail
• Willingness to accept changing and evolving roles & responsibilities in support of customers’ requirements and needs
• Positive attitude, self-starter, and an ability to work with little supervision
• Current TS/SCI clearance required
• Up to 10% travel may be required

Desired Skills

• USAF / Navy Test Pilot School Graduate (Pilot, NAV, or Engineer)
• Mission Control Room experience directing ground / flight test events while monitoring performance parameters
• Experience with Electronic Warfare testing
• Experience in coordinating and executing tests on various government open air test ranges
• Experience with "modeling houses" (e.g., MIT/LL, JHU/APL, GTRI, EZJA, etc) to reconcile differences between predicted and actual system performance
• Experience with data analysis tools (MATLAB, Python, etc)