Flight Mechanics Test Engineer

Job Summary

The ePlane Company is seeking a full-time Flight Mechanics Test Engineer to join our team based in Chennai.

Responsibilities

• Prepare the aircraft for Subscale or full scale flight testing and establish/improvise checklists and SOPs
• Develop comprehensive flight test plans in collaboration with all teams, outlining test objectives, procedures, and success criteria.
• Review flight logs and drive hardware and software modifications based on thorough analysis and feedback obtained from testing outcomes.
• Work closely with avionics, propulsion, structural, software, and flight controls engineers to develop and support flight testing for VTOL platform.
• Conduct root cause analysis and log analysis for investigation of aircraft occurrences.
• Prepare logs and system level reports on test flights
• Prepare the learnings and their application on other platforms.
• Collaborate with the design team and improve simulation results from flight testing
• Conduct the system identification tests and update the flight dynamics model

Requirements

• Bachelors Degree in Aerospace / Aeronautical / Electrical Engineering or related field
• 3+ years of experience in relevant domain

Skills

• Guidance, Navigation, and Control algorithms
• state estimation
• sensor fusion
• Autopilot Software
• PID loop tuning
• adaptive control
• system identification
• Ground Control Stations (GCS)
• Avionics Payload Integration

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