Instrumentation Engineer
- Employer
- Cirrus Aircraft
- Location
- Duluth, Minnesota, US
- Salary
- Join our team!
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- Industry
- Engineering and Architecture
- Role
- Engineer
- Job Type
- Long-Term
Job Details
Support engineering test and evaluation. Coordinates/directs the work of flight test engineers and instrumentation personnel. Oversee significant portions of Flight Test Project and participates in aircraft and aircraft system design.
Able to evaluate, recommend, and implement flight test tools and strategies while ensuring compliance with federal regulations and product specifications.
Essential Duties:
- Develop and implementation of aircraft instrumentation, data recording, telemetry, and data analysis hardware and software.
- Participate in all aspects of engineering test and evaluation activities.
- Prepare Test Plans and Test Cards.
- Conduct daily brief of aircraft configuration, weight and balance, status, and limitations.
- Perform Flight Test Engineer duties during flight in experimental aircraft.
- Perform Flight Test Director duties during test flights.
- Gather, analyze, and report on ground and flight test data.
- Evaluate compliance with federal regulations, design requirements and objectives.
- Communicate test results to engineering personnel, corporate officers, contractor, and FAA personnel.
- Recommend changes to aircraft and aircraft systems to meet design and regulatory requirements, design objectives, and customer needs and safety.
- Oversee flight test equipment inventory and instrument calibrations.
Education and/or Experience:
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering related discipline. Engineering experience 2 years.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities:
- Experience with data digital data acquisition hardware and software.
- Good communication, computer, leadership, organizational and multitasking skills.
Certificate or Licensures:
- FAA Class III Medical
- FAA Private Pilot, Single Engine Land
Cirrus is dedicated to a drug free work environment promoting equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, national origin, color, age, disability, religion, pregnancy, veteran status, marital and family status, sexual orientation, receipt of public assistance, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
Company
Since day one in 1984, Cirrus Aircraft has been committed to the future of aviation through smart safety, ease of operation and most adamantly, continuous innovation. Along the way, every turn has meant challenges and opportunities to grow general aviation–improving the flying experience as a whole.
Our goal is to utilize technology to drive enhanced safety, performance, sophistication and comfort. We are proud that today, after 30 years of dedication, the Cirrus brand is associated with these accolades and hallmarks that mean so much to us. Our line of all-composite personal aircraft-–the SR20, SR22 and turbocharged SR22T–lives up to this by incorporating advanced electronic and standard safety technologies including Cirrus Perspective by Garmin avionics and the unique Cirrus Airframe Parachute System® (CAPS®).
Our latest aircraft, the Vision Jet, raises the bar even higher as it ushers in a new era in personal transportation and introduces the world to “the personal jet.”
We’ve traveled far, but in many ways, we’re only just taking off. Join our team and become a part of the future today.
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