Senior Flight-Test Instrumentation Specialist

DCS Corporation; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

ARCTOS a DCS company is seeking a part-time Senior Instrumentation and Data Acquisition SME to support the development, qualification, and flight testing of an instrumented structural panel.

This role requires senior technician-level expertise and extensive hands-on experience with aerospace flight-test instrumentation, sensor installation, signal conditioning, data acquisition systems, and environmental qualification testing.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required.
• 10 years of experience with a Master's degree in mechanical or aeronautical engineering.
• Experience supporting hypersonic or high-speed flight test programs.
• Hands-on instrumentation for aerospace structures and flight hardware.
• Proficient in sensor installation, wiring, signal conditioning, and data acquisition.
• Knowledge of MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461 standards.

Responsibilities

• Support development of the panel instrumentation and data acquisition approach, including sensor selection, placement, installation methods, wiring, signal conditioning, sampling requirements, and channel allocation.
• Provide hands-on technical expertise for installation and integration of instrumentation on structural panels and associated flight hardware.
• Support instrumentation including strain, temperature, static and dynamic pressure, acceleration/vibration, and other measurements.
• Support integration of instrumentation with vehicle data acquisition, power, telemetry, and onboard data-storage systems.
• Evaluate requirements against power, data acquisition channels, sampling rates, bandwidth, and onboard data-storage capacity.
• Develop and/or review instrumentation drawings, wiring diagrams, sensor installation procedures, calibration requirements, and checkout procedures.
• Assist with sensor calibration, end-to-end channel verification, troubleshooting, and data-quality assessment.
• Assist with environmental qualification and acceptance testing of the instrumented panel.
• Provide expertise for vibration, EMI/EMC, thermal, and other flight-environment qualification testing.
• Assess instrumentation performance before/during/after environmental testing to identify issues.
• Support ground testing, vehicle integration, pre-flight checkout, flight readiness activities.
• Provide recommendations to improve instrumentation reliability and data quality for future tests.

Skills

Aerospace instrumentation

Flight-test experience

Sensor installation

Data acquisition systems

Environmental qualification testing

Troubleshooting hardware

Vibration/EMI/EMC testing

System integration

Wiring and diagrams

Hands-on technician

Education

Master's degree in mechanical or aeronautical engineering

Tools

MIL-STD-810

MIL-STD-461

Job description

ARCTOS a DCS company is seeking a part-time Senior Instrumentation and Data Acquisition SME to support the development, qualification, and flight testing of an instrumented structural panel.

This role requires senior technician-level expertise and extensive hands-on experience with aerospace flight-test instrumentation, sensor installation, signal conditioning, data acquisition systems, and environmental qualification testing.