Flight Test Engineer / Test Director

MTSI is seeking a Flight Test Engineer/Test Director to support aircraft system and subsystems testing. Duty location is Las Vegas but travel to other work locations will be required.

Responsibilities: · Work with customers to plan, execute, and report on ground and flight test events · Work with customers to plan and design test events to obtain necessary data to address flight test objectives · Develop technically adequate test objectives, data requirements, data collection methodologies and go/no-go criteria to inform strategic platform requirements and modeling and simulation needs · Perform reviews of aircraft specification requirements to ensure the data management and analysis plan (DMAP) provides proper data collection for real-time and post-mission data processing and evaluation · Execute safe, secure, effective, and efficient flight test events · Collaborate with data analysts to oversee the data analysis process and build actionable executive-level test reports.

Make quick decisions during test missions, direct real-time aircraft corrections, and coordinate rapidly with test team members to adjust the mission flow as necessary to meet mission data collection goals

Conduct thorough mission debriefs to ensure all relevant mission events are understood and to identify lessons learned to be applied to future missions

Assist in data analysis and review as required to facilitate correct interpretation of the mission data.

Support the creation of test engineering documentation: Test plans, Safety Packages, Data Analysis Management Plans, Technical Review Board Briefs, Safety Review Board Briefs, Test Readiness Briefs, Test Cards, and Test Reports

Capable and willing to work in a remote environment with a highly motivated team.

Qualifications Education: Bachelor and/or Master of Science (Aeronautical/Electrical/Mechanical Engineering, Math, Computer Science or Physics)

Required Experience/Skills:

Minimum of 10+ years of flight test experience

Have a "Team" mentality towards providing integrated engineering support for design reviews, test planning working groups, test card preparation, disciplined test execution, and collaborate/author on post-flight reports

Work well in a team environment as well as independently and have above average communication and writing skills

Excellent communication, organization, analytical, and leadership skills, attention to detail

Position requires willingness to accept changing and evolving roles & responsibilities in support of customers’ requirements and needs.

Positive attitude, self-starter and an ability to work with little supervision

Desired Experience/Skills/Credentials:

USAF / Navy Test Pilot School Graduate (Pilot, NAV, or Engineer)

Mission Control Room experience directing ground / flight test events while monitoring performance parameters

Experience with Electronic Warfare testing

Experience in coordinating and executing tests on various government open air test ranges

Experience with "modeling houses" (e.g., MIT/LL, JHU/APL, GTRI, EZJA, etc) to reconcile differences between predicted and actual system performance

Experience with data analysis tools (MATLAB, Python, etc)

Security Clearance Requirements: Current TS/SCI clearance required

Travel Requirements: Up to 10% travel may be required.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

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