Staff Engineer, Flight Test (R6305)

Location: Wichita Metro Area, United States; on-site. Travel to test sites, customer locations, and field exercises is required.

Salary: $120,000–$190,000 per year, plus bonus, benefits, and equity for regular employees.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, autonomy software, unmanned aircraft, and simulation technologies.

What you will do

• Develop, publish, and execute ground and flight test plans, procedures, risk assessments, safety reviews, and readiness reviews.
• Integrate and test aircraft systems, payloads, communications and data links, software, ground control systems, and mission equipment.
• Lead pre-flight, flight, and post-flight operations, including configuration, instrumentation, telemetry, data collection, and reporting.
• Analyze test data to identify performance trends, anomalies, root causes, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with engineering, operations, autonomy, systems integration, manufacturing, product support, and customer teams to validate requirements and troubleshoot issues.
• Lead or support test range operations, safety briefings, go/no-go decisions, maintenance, configuration control, process improvement, and operating-limit requirements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics.
• 8+ years of experience in developmental or operational ground and flight testing, unmanned or manned aircraft systems, aircraft integration, 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 field or test-range environments, and provide overtime or weekend coverage as required.
• U.S. citizenship and an in-scope active Secret clearance are required to start.

Nice to have

• Experience with Group 4–5 UAS, fighter-type capabilities, weapons systems, autonomy, navigation, mission planning, or command-and-control systems.
• Familiarity with FAA, DoW, and test-range flight operations.
• Hands-on experience with aircraft maintenance, avionics and payload integration, ground support equipment, telemetry, flight logs, sensor data, data links, or RF systems.
• Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate or crewed aviation experience.
• Mission Control Room experience with IADS or a similar development flight-test-instrumentation display system.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on engineering work across control rooms, hangars, maintenance areas, field sites, and test ranges.
• Regular employee package includes benefits, bonus, and equity.
• Work focuses on safety-minded development and rapid fielding of advanced aircraft systems.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodation support available for applicants with disabilities or special needs.