[Hiring] Flight Test Planning Specialist @Archer

Role Description

What you’ll do:

• Develop flight test plans that trace directly to FAA certification basis requirements, ensuring test objectives, success criteria, and instrumentation needs are clearly defined and defensible to regulators.
• Partner with subsystem engineering to understand system design intent, failure modes, and areas of technical risk, and translate that understanding into test procedures that adequately probe the system.
• Lead or support Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), coordinating inputs from engineering, safety, and operations to confirm a test point is ready to fly.
• 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 ensure test plans and results support the certification basis and compliance findings.
• Contribute to lessons-learned and process improvement efforts to make future test planning cycles faster and more rigorous.

Qualifications

• 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 a strong attention to detail.

Requirements

• Bonus Qualifications: FAA pilot certificate.

Benefits

• For this position, we are targeting a base pay between $96,300 - $132,400 USD. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Company Description

Archer is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.