Flight Test Planning Specialist

🕒 October 5

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $96.3k - $132.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor

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Archer

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501 - 1000 employees

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

🚀 Aerospace

Manufacturing • Logistics • Aerospace

Archer is an aerospace company building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft focused on improving mobility in cities. The company's mission is to advance the benefits of sustainable air mobility. Archer is designing, manufacturing, and operating a fully electric aircraft that can carry four passengers for 60 miles at speeds of up to 150mph while producing minimal noise. Archer's team is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

📋 Description

• Develop flight test plans traceable to FAA certification basis requirements, defining test objectives, success criteria, and instrumentation needs • Partner with subsystem engineering to understand system design intent, failure modes, and technical risks, and translate them into test procedures • Lead or support Test Readiness Reviews, coordinating engineering, safety, and operations inputs • Author and maintain test plan documentation, including test point matrices, procedures, instrumentation and data requirements, and pass/fail criteria • Coordinate with certification engineers and, where applicable, FAA representatives to support certification basis and compliance findings • Contribute to lessons-learned and process improvement efforts for future test planning cycles

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, or a related field • 10+ years of experience in flight test operations • Strong knowledge of airworthiness certification flight test programs and regulatory requirements • Experience with safety risk management processes related to flight testing or complex operational testing • Proficiency in planning/executing ground and flight tests within certification or military projects • Exceptional collaboration and interpersonal skills • Highly organized with strong attention to detail • FAA pilot certificate is a bonus qualification

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay-for-performance culture • Performance-based compensation • Certain positions may be eligible for visa sponsorship • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with physical or mental disabilities and sincerely held religious beliefs • Equal Opportunity employment commitment