Merlinlabs47mo ago

Flight Test Engineer

United States·North KingstownFull Timemid

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About Merlin: Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest…

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About Merlin:

Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world’s leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation’s biggest challenges.

About You:

Do you enjoy hands-on testing at the cutting edge of aerospace technology? Do you enjoy fast paced problem solving? Are you self-motivated and have a critical eye for flight safety and flight test details? Do you love the idea of more widely proliferated and safer flying machines, accessible to all? If so, you might be a good fit to lead our Flight Test Engineering team here at Merlin.

Join our flight test engineering team in supporting development of our autonomy systems by flying early and often.

Develop, and drive the application of, the processes we need to prepare for, execute, and analyze our flight tests.

Collaborate with hardware, software, flight controls, integration, and flight operation teams to develop and author test plans, ensure readiness for test, and drive efficient and effective collection of the data we need to test our systems.

Participate in flight tests, including building and approving cards, verifying procedures and software via simulation, serving as test director/conductor, and supporting generation of analysis and deficiency reports after flight .

BS in Engineering or a related subject.

5+ years direct experience with experimental flight test or a combination of equivalent formal training and experience.

Knowledge of basic concepts of fixed wing aircraft flight dynamics and control.

Enthusiastic willingness to do what needs to be done to help our flight test program succeed, including but not limited to: flying in airplanes, traveling to our other sites for coordination and team building, and learning new skills as necessary.

Exceptional written and verbal communication and organizational skills.

Must be eligible to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Flight Test Engineer Professional course (NTPS, ITPS, Military TPS)

BS in Aerospace engineering

Experience using software development environments and tools such as Linux, git, and Jira.

Knowledge of Python and/or Matlab, especially for scripting and engineering data analysis.

Experience with flight controls product development, including testing and troubleshooting at the system level as well as at the software component level.

Experience with certification programs and flight test