Flight Test Engineer

As Flight Test Engineer at MORSE you are a critical member of the team taking vehicles from concept to flight leading fast-paced iterative and rigorous test campaigns managing both local and Continental US flight test activities necessary for the development of first-of-a-kind aerial systems. You will provide technical support for multiple programs by managing logistics safety and overall coordination of flight test activities. This role will work with engineers across a variety of domains in a rapidly-changing R&D environment and requires a strong sense of systems level design. You will have full responsibility for planning and executing complex test activities at locations including commercial test facilities for Unmanned Aircraft Systems as well as military bases.

• Plan and execute local (New England) and Continental US flight test activities coordinates with project engineers to identify test objectives and data requirements

• Own the details and coordinate resources to execute testing including scheduling of range time equipment shipment and travel arrangements

• Ensure necessary test support equipment and instrumentation are available and operable to support testing

• Champion testing best practices and ensures safe conduct of testing activities

• Participate in data reduction and data review of test data to verify that test objectives were met

• Interface with inter-disciplinary engineering teams on novel UAS systems

• US CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED or the ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering or related field

• 3+ years’ experience as a test engineer in a flight wind tunnel or other test environment

• Experience with design of test instrumentation systems for ground and/or flight testing

• Experience with test planning and safety assessments for UAS

• Experience in data reduction in Python MATLAB or similar

• 25-50% Travel

• Part 107 Certification

• Quad multirotor and/or fixed wing pilot experience

• Familiarity with an experimental aircraft airworthiness release process

• Experience with testing UAS Swarming or multi-vehicle control

What We Do

MORSE is a specially selected team of scientists engineers and software developers who use asymmetric and unconventional approaches to deploy practical solutions that solve difficult multi-disciplinary problems faced by the US National Security Ecosystem.

Why Work With Us

We have culture of exceptionally talented smart individuals united by the goal of fielding high-quality novel technology to support our customers in the National Security Ecosystem. The internal MORSE ethos involves fostering individuals to pursue goals and interests innovate and solve hard problems.

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