Flight Test Engineering Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Zone 5 Technologies, we're redefining what's possible in precision weapons and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Our team of engineers and innovators are developing cutting-edge autonomous solutions to deliver affordable and scalable precision weapons, interceptors, and UAS.</p>

<p>We're building the next generation of munitions and unmanned systems for the United States and its allies. If you're driven by hard problems, energized by rapid innovation, and ready to make an impact on defense technology, you belong here.</p></div><p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Position Summary</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":110,"335559739":50,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>

<p><span data-contrast="auto">As a Test Engineering Manager, you will lead one of the engineering teams within Zone 5's Test & Evaluation organization — which spans flight testing, test operations, and environmental testing — while partnering with T&E leadership and peer managers to grow the discipline's shared methods, tools, and standards. You will be a working manager: accountable for your team's execution against its commitments, and expected to contribute independently at the test engineering level when that is what it takes to get the job done. Your team plans and executes the testing that verifies our air vehicles and their subsystems — from lab and environmental campaigns through integrated ground test and flight test — and your role is to ensure that work is delivered safely, rigorously, and consistently, and that your engineers are developed, supported, and well matched to the programs they serve.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":70,"335559740":226}"> </span></p>

<p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559738":110,"335559739":50,"335559740":240}"> </span></p>

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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Times New Roman" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":215,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Ensure the correct and consistent application of test methodologies, processes, tools, and standards within your team, and contribute to their continued development across the discipline.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":28,"335559740":226}"> </span></li>

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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Times New Roman" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":215,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Staff and balance your engineers across concept development efforts and program teams based on skills, availability, and development needs, in coordination with T&E leadership and peer managers.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":28,"335559740":226}"> </span></li>

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<li data-leveltext="•" data-font="Times New Roman" data-listid="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":360,"335559991":215,"469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"•","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Oversee test readiness — instrumentation, telemetry and data acquisition, range and facility coordination, and hazard analysis — so campaigns enter execution prepared.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"201341983":0,"335559739":28,"335559740":226}"> </span></li>

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