Senior System Test Engineer for UAV and Flight Tests

AeroVironment, Inc.; Virginia Colony (CA); Sur place; USD 101 000 - 171 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

medical

dental vision

401K with company matching

a 9/80 work schedule

paid holiday shutdown

Résumé du poste

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a System Test Engineer II to develop and execute System Test Plans for small unmanned air vehicles and missiles. You will log and analyze data, document results, and support developmental and flight tests across subsystems.

The role requires collaboration with the Flight Test Director, writing test cards, and ensuring proper test configurations. Travel within the Continental U.S. is expected, with a focus on timely test execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related discipline or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 2-5 years' experience in related industry or projects that include conducting system or flight tests.
• Experience with scripting and programming languages to automate testing is a plus.
• Experience as a pilot or aircrew member would be beneficial.

Responsabilités

• Support developmental test and evaluation of sub-system, model-scale, and full scale testing.
• Assist the Flight Test Director during flight tests.
• Determine and communicate subsystem, system and flight test objectives.
• Develop test cards to verify that those objectives are met.
• Review System Requirement documents to help ensure requirements are concise and testable.
• Participate in test and flight readiness reviews, test briefs, and post-test debriefs.
• Ensure test assets are prepared to support testing, including proper configuration of product hardware and software, writing test cards and procedures, and maintaining test equipment.
• Process and analyze test data to determine test results.
• Analyze large test data sets using software tools (MATLAB or Excel).
• Capture test activities, fill in test data sheets, and transfer telemetry files to the network.
• Enter test failures or anomalies in an issue tracking system database.
• Summarize test activities and results in reports.

Connaissances

Testing & verification

Scripting

Automation

Communication

Formation

Bachelor's degree in related discipline

MS or PhD preferred

Outils

MATLAB

Excel

Description du poste

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a System Test Engineer II to develop and execute System Test Plans for small unmanned air vehicles and missiles. You will log and analyze data, document results, and support developmental and flight tests across subsystems.

The role requires collaboration with the Flight Test Director, writing test cards, and ensuring proper test configurations. Travel within the Continental U.S. is expected, with a focus on timely test execution.