Flight Mechanics Test Engineer

The Eplane Company; Chengalpattu; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

The ePlane Company is seeking a full-time Flight Mechanics Test Engineer to join our team based in Chennai.

The role involves preparing aircraft for flight testing, developing test plans, analyzing logs, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to validate VTOL flight dynamics and simulation results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Aeronautical/Electrical Engineering or related field.
• 3+ years of experience in relevant domain.

Responsibilities

• Prepare aircraft for subscale/full-scale flight testing; establish checklists and SOPs.
• Develop comprehensive flight test plans with teams, outlining objectives, procedures, and success criteria.
• Review flight logs and drive hardware/software modifications based on testing outcomes.
• Collaborate with avionics, propulsion, structural, software, and flight-controls engineers for VTOL flight testing.
• Conduct root cause and log analyses for aircraft occurrences.
• Prepare logs and system-level reports on test flights.
• Capture learnings and apply them to other platforms.
• Collaborate with design to improve simulation results from flight testing.
• Conduct system identification tests and update the flight dynamics model.

Skills

Guidance, Navigation, and Control

State estimation

Sensor fusion

Autopilot software

PID loop tuning

Adaptive control

System identification

Ground Control Stations

Avionics payload integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Aerospace/Aeronautical/Electrical Engineering or related field

Job description

Job Summary

The ePlane Company is seeking a full-time Flight Mechanics Test Engineer to join our team based in Chennai.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the aircraft for Subscale or full scale flight testing and establish/improvise checklists and SOPs
• Develop comprehensive flight test plans in collaboration with all teams, outlining test objectives, procedures, and success criteria.
• Review flight logs and drive hardware and software modifications based on thorough analysis and feedback obtained from testing outcomes.
• Work closely with avionics, propulsion, structural, software, and flight controls engineers to develop and support flight testing for VTOL platform.
• Conduct root cause analysis and log analysis for investigation of aircraft occurrences.
• Prepare logs and system level reports on test flights
• Prepare the learnings and their application on other platforms.
• Collaborate with the design team and improve simulation results from flight testing
• Conduct the system identification tests and update the flight dynamics model

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Aerospace / Aeronautical / Electrical Engineering or related field
• 3+ years of experience in relevant domain

Skills

• Guidance, Navigation, and Control algorithms
• state estimation
• sensor fusion
• Autopilot Software
• PID loop tuning
• adaptive control
• system identification
• Ground Control Stations (GCS)
• Avionics Payload Integration