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Archer · 4 months ago

Flight Test Instrumentation Operations Lead

San Jose, California, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

$225K/yr - $281K/yr

3+ years exp

Archer is an aerospace company based in San Jose, California, building an all-electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft with a mission to advance sustainable air mobility. The Flight Test Instrumentation Operations Lead will support developmental test and certification efforts, maintain instrumentation systems, and collaborate with engineering teams to ensure successful flight test activities.

AerospaceAir TransportationElectric VehicleManufacturing

No H1B

Responsibilities

Support the Developmental Test and Certification Efforts of Archer’s piloted eVTOL aircraft project

Maintain the data acquisition system, Instrumentation Configuration, and instrumentation health and readiness for flight test aircraft

Work with internal customers and vendors to solve instrumentation and measurement related challenges

Perform post-flight data processing and field data quality related questions

Key advisor to the Instrumentation Director regarding all aircraft instrumentation health and readiness status and instrumented flight activities

Develop processes and documentation to support the checkout, calibration, and maintenance of flight test instrumentation

Collaborate with the Flight Test Engineering and Certification Teams to plan and perform all required development and certification flight test activities

Collaborate with all engineering design and analysis teams to establish a comprehensive instrumentation plan including, but not limited to, monitoring of strain, temperature, vibration, pressure, airdata, ECS, etc

Assist in designing instrumentation wiring, termination details, and physical and digital integration with the aircraft and aircraft systems

Assist in designing all hardware required for flight test. For example, instrumentation racks, air data booms, aircrew interfaces, workstations, camera systems, telemetry systems, etc

Perform Instrumentation work with the support of an instrumentation technician and Aircraft Operations Team

Ensure flight test instrumentation activities are completed on time and within budget

Qualification

Instrumentation engineeringData acquisition systemsTelemetry operationsSensor maintenanceFlight test configurationPythonC++VBA + ExcelTraining on instrumentation