Develops FAA-aligned flight test plans for advanced aerospace systems, defining test objectives, procedures, instrumentation, data requirements, and pass/fail criteria. Partners with engineering, safety, operations, certification teams, and FAA representatives to support test readiness reviews and certification findings. The role also contributes to safety risk management, test execution, documentation, lessons learned, and process improvements for ground and flight testing.
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Archer is a leader in the next-gen aerospace sector building an end-to-end advanced air mobility platform that delivers air taxis, unmanned aircraft systems (“UAS”), aviation-related physical artificial intelligence (“AI”) solutions, and other technologies to customers worldwide across the commercial aerospace and defense sectors.
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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
What you need:
- 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
Bonus Qualifications:
- FAA pilot certificate
Information collected and processed as part of any job applications you choose to submit is subject to Archer's Candidate Privacy Policy.Certain positions may be eligible for visa sponsorship.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.Archer Aviation does not engage with external recruiting agencies/individual recruiters with whom it does not have a prior written agreement. Archer reserves the right to make use of any unsolicited resumes that it receives and bears no responsibility for payment of any fees asserted from the use of unsolicited resumes. If you are a recruiting agency or individual recruiter wishing to do business with Archer, please reach out to [email protected]. All employment processes are managed by the Archer People Team.
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