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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO / FLIGHT TEST / FULL-TIME
At Elroy Air, we’re constructing autonomous vertical takeoff and touchdown (VTOL) cargo plane programs that can change the best way the world strikes items. Transporting cargo by air has a lot potential! It’s a lot quicker than by land or sea, however earlier than latest developments in notion, autonomy, electrical powertrain and aerospace supplies – air transport has remained costly. We’re going to vary that. And we’re fixing huge issues; the industrial specific logistics business worldwide wants quicker + higher transport and spends $140B yearly, and our women and men in uniform want a dependable unmanned aerial cargo supply system.
Our future companions and clients are responding enthusiastically. As we put together to fly our autos with clients, we’re in search of folks such as you: motivated teammates excited by this mission and by the uncommon alternative to develop a world-class autonomous aerial logistics system. You’ll play a crucial position in bringing the Elroy Air system to the world.
Elroy Air values and strives for variety in our workforce and doesn’t discriminate primarily based on applicant id in accordance with equal employment alternatives and federal, state, and native legislation. We outline variety as quite a lot of views, life experiences, and backgrounds which type an individual’s id. This consists of not simply gender id and race, but additionally ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender expression, faith, age, capacity, parenthood standing, veteran standing, citizenship standing, or any mixture of those traits.
As a flight take a look at engineer, you’ll be accountable for main the hassle round constructing and executing complete take a look at take a look at plans, collaborating in flight readiness critiques, conducting subsystem and absolutely built-in automobile testing, monitoring real-time telemetry, performing flight knowledge evaluation, totally documenting take a look at outcomes, and troubleshooting points on Elroy’s autonomous cargo transport plane. You’ll work carefully with our Automobile Engineering, Industrial Design, Software program, and Airborne groups to make sure full take a look at protection.
That is an onsite, full-time, exempt position primarily based in South San Francisco.
What you’ll personal
- Constructing and executing a flight take a look at marketing campaign and related processes
- Constructing and executing take a look at plans for automobile vertical elevate and propulsion subsystems
- Collaborating with members of the engineering group to design and construct take a look at fixtures
- Being an skilled of the take a look at plane and its programs
- Conducting flight checks as a main member of the flight group within the GCS
- Coordinating with a number of groups in help of flight take a look at aims
- Sustaining and creating flight take a look at operation documentation and checklists
- Constructing and executing flight checks primarily based on system adjustments
- Designing checks to validate plane efficiency and usefulness in its goal utility
Our superb candidate
- 5+ years expertise in flight testing of manned or unmanned plane
- Capacity to work carefully with engineering and different take a look at personnel to design and execute advanced checks and operations on fast-paced schedules
- Proficiency in knowledge evaluation with MATLAB, Python, or different scripting instruments
- Perception and private apply of sturdy security tradition by way of using SOPs
- The power to journey to flight & floor testing websites as-needed
- Understanding of aerodynamics, plane efficiency and/or digital flight controls
- Proficiency in Solidworks CAD software program.
- The power to work and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced surroundings
- Bachelor’s or superior diploma in relevant engineering discipline, or equal expertise
Bonus factors for
- Expertise with programs comprising a various set of {hardware} interfaces, communications buses, peripheral units, and sensors
- Expertise with flight testing of enormous (1000lbs +) UAVs, VTOL plane, and/or manned plane
- Expertise with first flight efforts of manned or unmanned plane
- Personal Pilot or greater ranking
- Distant Pilot certificates
What’s in it for you
- Aggressive wage + fairness package deal
- Complete insurance coverage choices for medical/dental/imaginative and prescient/long run incapacity/life + non-compulsory plans for commuter accounts, pet insurance coverage, authorized assist, and extra!
- Retirement planning: 401(ok) with firm contribution
- 3 months absolutely paid parental go away
- Extremely versatile trip policy- that we really need you to make use of!
- Worker Help Program with 24/7 help
- Growing Worker Useful resource Teams (Affinity Teams) for underrepresented teams.
- A form, numerous, and extremely expert group
- You’ll assist outline a brand new class of aerospace / logistics / robotics, and also you’ll work on novel and never-before-built programs
- As an early addition to a rapidly rising group, you’ll assist form and outline firm tradition and values
- Versatile work preparations (we perceive you’ve got a private life)
We encourage you to use even in case you aren’t a precise match for our open position, lots of our group members come from nontraditional backgrounds.
All workers will probably be screened by way of E-Confirm.
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