Senior Engineer, Flight Test (R6304) (Aerospace)

Location: On-site in the Wichita Metro Area, United States; travel to test sites, customer locations, and field exercises is required.

Salary: $100,000–$160,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including Hivemind autonomy software, V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, and simulation and synthetic-reality technologies.

What you will do

• Develop, publish, and execute ground and flight test plans, procedures, risk assessments, safety reviews, and readiness reviews.
• Support the integration and testing of aircraft systems, payloads, communications and data links, software, ground control systems, and mission equipment.
• Coordinate pre-flight, flight, and post-flight activities, including configuration, instrumentation, telemetry, data collection, and reporting.
• Analyze flight-test data to identify performance trends, anomalies, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with engineering and operations teams to validate requirements, troubleshoot issues, and mature system capabilities.
• Lead or support test-range operations, safety briefings, go/no-go decisions, maintenance, configuration control, and operational readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
• At least 5 years of experience in developmental or operational ground and flight testing, aircraft integration, unmanned or manned aircraft systems, or aerospace systems engineering.
• Strong understanding of aircraft systems, flight dynamics, avionics, telemetry, sensors, or control systems.
• Ability to write and execute structured test plans, procedures, and technical reports, with strong troubleshooting skills in field or laboratory environments.
• Willingness to travel, work outdoors and in test-range environments, and provide overtime or weekend coverage when required.
• U.S. citizenship and an in-scope active Secret clearance are required to start.

Nice to have

• 8+ years of relevant ground and flight-test, unmanned-aircraft, aircraft-integration, or aerospace-systems experience.
• Experience with Group 4–5 UAS, fighter-type capabilities, weapons systems, autonomy, navigation, mission planning, or C2 systems.
• Experience with aircraft maintenance, avionics and payload integration, telemetry, flight and data logs, sensor data, datalinks, or RF systems.
• Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, crewed aviation experience, or Mission Control Room experience with IADS or a similar flight-test display system.
• Experience supporting developmental flight-test campaigns from design and planning through execution and reporting.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering work in control rooms, hangars, maintenance areas, field environments, and test ranges.
• Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, operations, autonomy, systems integration, product support, manufacturing, and customers.
• Regular employees receive pay within the listed range, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Work includes building and validating advanced aircraft systems for operational use.