Principal Flight Test Engineer at Mach

Mach

Huntington Beach·1h ago

LeadFull-timeAWS

Salary Range

$153,000 - $207,000 /year

Estimated

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About the Role

Mach Industries is seeking a Principal Flight Test Engineer to serve as a senior technical authority and mentor within the Flight Test organization. This role is responsible for executing and strategizing autonomous flight testing while developing the next generation of flight test engineers through direct mentorship and technical leadership.

Key Responsibilities

→Serve as Principal Technical Authority for flight and ground test engineering across autonomous aircraft programs
→Mentor and technically guide junior flight test engineers
→Establish internal best practices, templates, and training material for flight test engineering
→Own and execute test strategies for autonomous and semi-autonomous aircraft
→Lead autonomy mode progression, incremental enablement, and regression testing
→Lead flying qualities and handling qualities evaluations
→Design test methods to evaluate new and existing mission CONOPs
→Lead Flight Readiness Reviews (FRR), Test Readiness Reviews (TRR), and Post-Test Data reviews
→Lead system safety activities including Test Hazard Analysis (THA) development
→Guide the design and build-out of flight test infrastructure

Requirements

✓Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical, or related Engineering discipline
✓10–15+ years of aerospace experience with significant responsibility in flight test engineering
✓Demonstrated experience developing and testing autonomous or highly augmented aircraft systems
✓Experience writing and executing flight and ground test plans at multiple levels
✓Proven ability to design and execute flying qualities evaluations
✓Experience operating on DoD or restricted test ranges
✓Demonstrated mentorship and technical leadership of early-career engineers