Flight Test Software Engineer - Flexible Hours & Growth

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd; Stans; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

A committed, international team

Flexible working hours

Individual pension solutions

Support for training and development

Staff restaurant meals and employee-ly

Job summary

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. is seeking a Software Engineer Flight Test to develop front- and back-end web services used in the Flight Test Department. You will expand automated data and video processing, archival and management with modern tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Collaboration with IT and cloud integrations is required; English and German skills are essential. Ideal candidates have a higher IT or engineering degree and experience in software/web development on Linux with Docker, plus a strong drive

Qualifications

• Higher education in IT or engineering.
• Experience in software or web development with Linux servers and Docker.
• Good spoken and written English and German.
• Motivation to learn on the go and autonomously implement solutions.
• Demonstrated initiative from idea to execution.

Responsibilities

• Front and backend development of web-based services using Django, Django‑Ninja, Pydantic, and Vue.js.
• Update and extend software for automated measurement data, video processing, archiving and management with Airflow, Python, C++, FFmpeg, Parquet.
• Manage code repositories, Python packages and CI/CD (Git, GitHub, uv, Dockhand).
• Collaborate with IT for identity management, Azure cloud integrations, storage and tools (Azure, GitHub Copilot, WSL).
• Support flight test operations by capturing data/videos and monitoring automatic processing.

Skills

Django

Django-Ninja

Pydantic

Vue.js

Python

C++

FFmpeg

Parquet

Apache Airflow

Git

GitHub

CI/CD

Azure

WSL

Docker

Linux server

Education

IT or Engineering degree

Tools

GitHub CoPilot

Azure Cloud

Docker

Job description

Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. is seeking a Software Engineer Flight Test to develop front- and back-end web services used in the Flight Test Department. You will expand automated data and video processing, archival and management with modern tools and CI/CD pipelines.

Collaboration with IT and cloud integrations is required; English and German skills are essential. Ideal candidates have a higher IT or engineering degree and experience in software/web development on Linux with Docker, plus a strong drive