Reliability, Testing and Certification Engineering Manager

Reliability, Testing and Certification Engineering Manager

Ready to change the world?

We are reinventing how products are delivered around the world by unlocking the path not yet traveled.

Our company was founded in 2015 and is backed by Silicon Valley’s most prominent VCs, including Lightspeed Venture Partners and YCombinator. Volansi provides fast on-demand aerial delivery service for time-critical shipments over long ranges. We build and operate long-range, high-payload drones for commercial, defense, and humanitarian applications. Leveraging drone technology as a transportation method, we help our customers gain control of their supply chain and save millions of dollars on downtime and inventory costs.

Our work came from the immediate need for critical delivery of parts to drastically reduce downtime for an automotive company. From this idea, our founders have scaled the company into a team of highly skilled and motivated individuals to serve critical delivery markets.

Interested?

Volansi is seeking an experienced reliability, testing and certification engineering manager to help us build better, safer and more reliable aircraft and products. In this role, you will be primarily responsible for a rigorous ground testing program that is used to validate hardware from very isolated component level on up to fully integrated systems. You will have to not only manage testing completion, but take part in and manage the design of many tests that have not been done before, and often have interesting and challenging constraints. In addition to this, you will be responsible for leading a team providing guidance for flight certification of our aircraft portfolio.

What you will do:

Reliability:

• Management of the test pipeline for every component of the aircraft
• Design input to support testability, design for robustness, and schedule planning
• Making sure that tests are appropriately documented, and that test learnings find their way into design and manufacture, even if the parts technically pass
• Along with other engineering leadership, fly/no fly decisions

Certification:

• Serve as a liaison with relevant certification authorities for a broad set of technical disciplines
• Work both within the company and with certifying authorities to develop appropriate means of compliance
• Work with systems, verification, design, and test engineers to manage requirements
• Lead the generation of, and uphold, company standards with regards to test rigor, documentation, and overall safety approach
• Contribute to the overall certification and reliability growth strategy within the company

Required:

• A strong understanding of many of the core disciplines of engineering involved in VTOL aircraft.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant STEM field
• 2+ years experience as the owner of a challenging technical problem
• Additionally, 5+ years experience in managing a 5-10 person team
• A working knowledge of the relevant engineering disciplines
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• A background with safety critical systems

Desired:

• Previous work as a FAA Designated Engineering Representatives (DER), working closely with a DER, or within a previous aircraft certification effort
• Experience with Quality Management Systems under the AS9100 standard
• Experience with 14CFR part 22,23,25,27,29, or other equivalent certification standards
• Flight related hobbies and interests, such as a private pilot’s license, aircraft homebuilding, RC flying and competing, etc.
• Previous work on aerospace programs