Flight Test Engineer

Mobius

$90K — $120K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of relevant experience in flight test engineering
  • Experience in planning, monitoring, and implementing complex systems
  • Strong team collaboration skills for solving integration and execution issues
  • Test engineering support expertise in developmental and operational weapon systems
  • Solid understanding of DoD testing principles and processes

Responsibilities

  • Assist with pre-mission flight test planning and resource management
  • Evaluate readiness of test equipment and safety systems
  • Develop and review test, range, and sensor requirements
  • Create architectural plans to meet customer testing objectives
  • Identify and resolve scheduling conflicts for flight tests
  • Ensure telemetry and testing coverage requirements are met
  • Support planning meetings and prepare formal briefings

Benefits

  • Stable work environment
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401k plan with employer match
  • Flexible work schedules for better work-life balance
  • Tuition reimbursement for ongoing education
  • Paid leave and additional benefits
Full Job Description
Come join our team! Mobius is seeking a Flight Test Engineer.

In this role, you will collaborate with other missile defense experts - military, government civilians, and contractors from Mobius and other companies. Our team of experts helps the Government plan, develop, analyze, test and deliver state-of-the art sensors, weapons, communications, and command/control systems to the warfighter. Our MDA analysts and engineers work in modern, well-appointed government facilities in Huntsville, Alabama, otherwise known as "Rocket City." Huntsville is the hub of missile and space research and development.

Duties of a Flight Test Engineer may include:
  • Serve as an Assistant Test Resource Manager supporting the government's Test Resource Manager with a variety of pre-mission flight test planning, architecture development and test execution activities
  • Assess capabilities, determine readiness of instrumentation, launch / test support equipment, test ranges, and flight test safety systems, and ensure test countdown documentation is comprehensive and accurate
  • Assist in developing test, range, and auxiliary sensor requirements; ensure requirements are properly reviewed by stakeholders and captured in the Universal Documentation System (UDS)
  • Develop test resource architectures to meet customer requirements and objectives
  • Identify range and test resource schedule conflicts with other MDA or non-MDA flight tests
  • Ensure test architecture (e.g. telemetry, radar, optical, communications, GPS-based instrumentation) meets coverage requirements; Identify / resolve gaps and or conflicts in coverage
  • Prepare schedules; coordinate deconfliction of test resource requirements with internal and external agencies
  • Assist the government with preparation and execution of planning meetings and working groups; prepare briefings for formal reviews and other special topics
  • Collaborate with pre-mission flight test analysts to oversee telemetry link margin analysis (LMA) to ensure adequate telemetry coverage for the event
  • Travel (~15%) is required for flight test support; potential limited deployments to Colorado Springs, CO; Vandenberg Space Force Base; White Sands Missile Range; Kwajalein; Wake Island; Kauai, HI; Kodiak, AK; or other test ranges

Qualifications
  • 7 years or more of relevant experience
  • Experience providing planning, monitoring, acquisition, and implementation support for complex systems
  • Proven ability to work collaboratively as part of a team and assist in solving complex problems involving test planning, integration, execution, and analysis
  • Capable of providing test engineering support on systems, system elements, interfacing systems, components, devices and/or processes for developmental and operational weapon system programs during developmental and operational test events
  • Possesses general technical and theoretical knowledge of the DoD principles of developmental and operational testing, system test and integration, strategic planning, and/or process improvements

Education
  • BS in engineering field

Clearance
  • Active Secret or higher clearance


Mobius Benefits: Mobius offers a stable work environment, a competitive salary, and a comprehensive benefits package, which includes medical, dental and vision plans, 401k Plan, Flexible Work Schedules, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Leave and much more.

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