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Staff Flight Test Pilot – Autonomous eVTOL
Staff Flight Test Pilot – Autonomous eVTOL
Help pioneer safe, everyday autonomous flight. Wisk Aero, a fully owned Boeing subsidiary developing an all-electric, self-flying air taxi, is seeking a Staff Flight Test Pilot to join our Flight Test team in Hollister, CA.
✈️ The Mission
Join the team testing, evaluating, and helping certify a new class of all-electric, autonomous aircraft. You’ll shape flight-test strategy, execute complex missions in both crewed support aircraft and uncrewed systems, and elevate safety and rigor across the program.
🧭 What You’ll Do
- Author comprehensive air vehicle and subsystem test plans.
- Identify and analyze test hazards; define and enforce mitigations.
- Conduct flight tests in general-aviation support aircraft and un-crewed aircraft systems (UAS).
- Develop, review, and approve trajectory planning for UAS mission profiles.
- Report test results to certification-authority standards.
- Contribute to program documentation: restrictions and special instructions to test, Aircraft Flight Manuals, and Standard Operating Procedures.
- Mentor and lead fellow flight testers, fostering disciplined test conduct and continuous improvement.
🧰 What You Bring
- 8+ years of experience as a test pilot in flight testing fixed- and/or rotary-wing aircraft, or similarly complex aerospace systems.
- FAA Commercial Pilot or Airline Transport Pilot certificate (Fixed or Rotary Wing).
- Minimum FAA Second Class Medical certificate.
- Bachelor of Science in an engineering or relevant technical field.
🌟 Bonus Points
- 1500+ total flight hours, including 200+ hours in flight test.
- Graduate of an accredited engineering test pilot school.
- Certification flight-test experience with FAA, TCCA, or EASA.
- Unmanned aircraft systems flight operations experience.
- Experience with electric propulsion or other high stored-energy testing.
- Flight test experience in both fixed-wing and turbine rotary-wing platforms.
- Master’s degree in a relevant field.
📜 Certificates & Medical
- Pilot certificates: CPL or ATP (Unrestricted)
- Medical: FAA Second Class (minimum)
📨 Ready to Make History?
If advancing autonomous, all-electric flight excites you—and you thrive in disciplined, safety-first flight test—this role puts you at the leading edge. Apply to help define how the world moves.