What are the responsibilities and job description for the Flight and Hardware Test Director position at Orb Aerospace?
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Join us in returning to a 1940’s design cadence, reducing the cycle time for aircraft design, build and fly – Integrating advanced design tools and experimenting with unconventional planforms. We are reindustrializing the Midwest as Michigan’s first airframe prime since the Second World War. We’re leveraging our region’s industrial might and airspace to build aircraft that become decentralized infrastructure. Orb is a small mission-driven team where your initiative, creativity, and dedication will be used to reach every village on the planet with power, logistics, and communications.
Your Role at Orb : Orb needs a committed, dynamic systems engineer / UAV pilot with a passion for engineering and testing hardware software combinations to its limits throughout the design, build, test, and manufacturing process.
If you’re ready to take ownership, embrace complexity, and thrive in a role where your work truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.
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Key Responsibilities
- Support the physical, electrical and environmental testing of materials, components, sub-assemblies, and full product assemblies, including performing benchmark testing of both COTS and Orb designed components.
- Create strategies that support product testing and selection from the component to final product level.
- Create and execute test campaigns in accordance with the development timelines of Orb’s different product lines, including creating test plans, test cards, and writing formal test reports.
- Lead or participate in system, subsystem and vehicle-level FMEA.
- When needed, act as a remote Pilot in Command to fly prototype air vehicles to collect and quantify aircraft performance, including but not limited to airframe and flight envelope limitations, autonomy and flight control functionality, and communication / EW Resiliency.
- When required, design and fabricate experimental apparatuses and / or fixtures to collect experimental data.
- Write technical documents, drawings, and test reports along with associated specs to ensure a repeatable and sustainable testing program.
- Work cross functionally with multiple engineering disciplines across the Orb product development teams to stay aligned on both product and part key performance parameters.
- Stay up to date with latest industry testing standards and implement them where appropriate.
- Participate in the hiring process including recruiting and interviewing employees for Orb’s future test engineering team.
- Mentor incoming engineers to build a strong culture of leadership and engineering excellence.
Desired Skills and Qualifications
85,000 - $130,000 a year Additional Options and Incentives
About Orb Aerospace : Orb was started with the mission to bring aviation to the 80% of the world that’s never had it; turning autonomous aircraft into tools to decentralize infrastructure, connect continents, protect soldiers, provide for families, and run economies. “Less like the flying taxis, more like the flying cowboys,” Orb is at the intersection of manned and unmanned aviation, reindustrializing the Midwest, and building the future we know is possible and want to live in.
About Node One : Node One is a small team of engineers and operators who have dedicated their lives to solving some of the world’s hardest problems through a new kind of aviation. Orb’s live-work-fly R&D HQ. Node One is all about reducing the cycle time to design, build, and fly aircraft from years to months and building the systems and platforms we’ll use to reach every village on the planet.
We stand on the shoulders of giants. Their great work allows us to accomplish ours. If you’ve been a rocket / airplane nerd and have a passion for designing, building, and flying airframes, autopilots, power systems, and embedded systems, or you love to push a new product through new manufacturing methods to a new market, come join the team at Node One and make history.
Orb Employees Are :
High Agency and Biased Towards Action
Have a History of Self-Starting, Pacing, and Finishing Projects
Thrive with Autonomy to Design New Solutions to Partially Defined Problems
Are Curious and Continue Learning
Have Integrity and a Desire to Serve Others
Standard Benefits Package :
Orb provides a monthly flat rate towards medical, dental, and vision.
500 flat rate for individuals; $850 flat rate for married / family.
Medical, Vision, Dental, Short / Long Term Disability, and Group / Voluntary Life Insurance.
Opt-In 401K Options (Pre-Tax or Roth) with a 3% Employer Match.
Perks :
Support in Getting your Pilot's License and Ratings.
Support for Continuing Education.
Annual Customer Demos all over the World.
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Salary : $85,000 - $130,000
