Flight Test Planning Specialist

What you’ll do:

• Develop flight test plans that trace directly to FAA certification basis requirements, ensuring test objectives, success criteria, and instrumentation needs are clearly defined and defensible to regulators.
• Partner with subsystem engineering to understand system design intent, failure modes, and areas of technical risk, and translate that understanding into test procedures that adequately probe the system.
• Lead or support Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), coordinating inputs from engineering, safety, and operations to confirm a test point is ready to fly.
• Author and maintain test plan documentation, including test point matrices, procedures, instrumentation and data requirements, and pass/fail criteria.
• Coordinate with certification engineers and, where applicable, FAA representatives to ensure test plans and results support the certification basis and compliance findings.
• Contribute to lessons-learned and process improvement efforts to make future test planning cycles faster and more rigorous

What you need:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in flight test operations
• Strong knowledge of airworthiness certification flight test programs and regulatory requirements
• Experience with safety risk management processes related to flight testing or complex operational testing
• Proficiency in planning/executing ground and flight tests within certification or military projects
• Exceptional collaboration and interpersonal skills 
• Highly organized with a strong attention to detail

Bonus Qualifications:

• FAA pilot certificate

At Archer we aim to attract, retain, and motivate talent that possess the skills and leadership necessary to grow our business. We drive a pay-for-performance culture and reward performance that supports the Company’s business strategy. For this position we are targeting a base pay between $96,300 - $132,400 USD. Actual compensation offered will be determined by factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Archer is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities, and those with sincerely held religious beliefs. Applicants who may require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should provide their name and contact information to Archer’s People Team at people@archer.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.