Engineer I, Flight Test (R6219)

About the role

Responsibilities

• Support test planning and execution for integration of Hivemind Mission Autonomy capabilities onto unmanned platforms and mission-system configurations.
• Assist senior test engineers with defining test objectives, expected system behavior, acceptance criteria, verification methods, and test schedules.
• Help develop, execute, and maintain system-level test procedures, test cases, checklists, and test configurations.
• Support setup, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting of software-in-the-loop (SIL), hardware-in-the-loop (HIL), simulation, laboratory, and automated test environments.
• Assist with installation, configuration, and verification of test hardware, software, networks, ground-control equipment, sensors, radios, computing systems, and supporting tools as applicable.
• Collect and organize test data, telemetry, logs, video, configuration information, and other evidence needed to evaluate system behavior.
• Help analyze test results, identify deviations from expected performance, document defects, and support root-cause investigations with systems, software, autonomy, and platform-integration teams.
• Contribute to performance metrics, test reports, test-readiness materials, dashboards, and other reporting artifacts for internal engineering teams and external stakeholders.
• Assist with maintaining test infrastructure, test automation, simulation tools, and repeatable test configurations.
• Support development and maintenance of test procedures, standard operating procedures, configuration-control records, lessons learned, and engineering documentation.
• Participate in test-readiness reviews, technical planning meetings, issue-triage sessions, and post-test debriefs.
• Follow established safety, security, configuration-management, and operational procedures during laboratory, simulation, integration, and flight-test activities.
• Travel periodically to internal test sites, customer locations, and platform-integration events as needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline, such as Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Systems Engineering, Robotics, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Foundational experience with engineering test, integration, troubleshooting, or verification activities through coursework, internships, research, military service, laboratory work, personal projects, or professional experience.
• Familiarity with basic systems-engineering and test concepts, including requirements, verification, validation, test procedures, configuration management, defect tracking, and technical documentation.
• Interest in autonomous systems, robotics, unmanned aircraft systems, flight-test operations, simulation, embedded systems, or software-and-hardware integration.
• Familiarity with Linux, Windows, command-line tools, networking basics, and/or scripting or programming languages such as Python, Bash, C++, or similar tools.
• Ability to work methodically, follow detailed procedures, maintain accurate records, and manage several tasks in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, including the ability to investigate unexpected system behavior using logs, telemetry, test results, and input from subject-matter experts.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical findings to cross-functional engineering teams.
• Demonstrated reliability, accountability, teamwork, attention to detail, and commitment to maintaining a respectful and high-performing engineering culture.
• Ability to travel periodically in support of integration, testing, and customer activities.
• Internship, academic research, military, laboratory, personal-project, or professional experience involving UAS, autonomous vehicles, robotics, aviation, embedded systems, or complex integrated systems.
• Exposure to software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop, simulation, modeling-and-simulation, or automated test environments.
• Familiarity with test automation, scripting, data collection, telemetry analysis, log analysis, or defect-tracking tools.
• Exposure to software-development and configuration-management practices, including Git, issue tracking, build systems, continuous integration, or test automation.
• Familiarity with basic networking concepts, including Ethernet, IP networking, UDP/TCP communication, and network troubleshooting.
• Exposure to flight-test, aviation, safety, or operational-risk-management processes.
• Working knowledge of Department of Defense development, test, evaluation, or acquisition processes, including Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) or Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E).
• Experience working in a laboratory, integration facility, field-test environment, maker space, research environment, or similar hands-on technical setting.