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Flight Test Engineer

DZYNE Technologies
Irvine, CA
  • Expired: over a month ago. Applications are no longer accepted.
Job Description

Position Description:

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.

Required Skills and Responsibilities:

  • Five years of relevant work related to flight test operations
  • 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.
  • Must have a strong technical background, ability to read and interpret engineering design artifacts, and customer requirements
  • Must have the ability to communicate test procedures to a wide audience
  • 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 or 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
  • Author test reports for daily events and final deliverables to customers
  • Follow specific tool control, FOD control, and safety guidelines and policies.
  • Self-driven and interfaces well with teams of varied disciplines
  • Perform other duties as directed by supervision and management for the benefit of the company, program, or employee(s).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree (required) Master’s Degree (desired) in Engineering, Mathematics, or Physical Sciences
  • Graduate of an internationally-recognized recognized test pilot school
  • Experience in aviation as a private pilot or remote pilot (Part 107)
  • Experience with U.S. government-sponsored test programs
  • Security clearance - Secret

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

  • Must have the ability to stoop, stand, climb, occasionally lift a minimum of 25 lbs.
  • Regularly required to crouch and reach to install/move equipment by bending forward at the waist or by bending legs and spine
  • Involves movement between departments, floors, and worksites to facilitate work.
  • Ability to travel to remote and sometimes austere locations for flight test activities

 

DZYNE Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. DZYNE Technologies complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which our company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment.

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DZYNE Technologies

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Irvine, CA
92618 USA

Industry

Travel