- Robot type
- Drone · Defense
- Location
- VictorvilleCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Customer Success
- Posted
- Sep 23, 2026
- Salary
- $146,000–$194,000 a year
Full-time
Project Engineer and Site Lead, Autonomous Airpower
Job description
The Air Dominance & Strike division designs, develops, tests, and fields the next generation of autonomous air systems, strike weapons, and advanced propulsion for the United States and its allies.
Our portfolio includes Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) such as Fury, loitering munitions and flexible-payload air vehicles like ALTIUS, high-rate manufacturing cruise missile systems like Barracuda, VTOL autonomous interceptors like Roadrunner, and advanced solid rocket motor technologies. We operate at the intersection of rapid flight testing, high-rate manufacturing, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and edge-compute autonomy to deliver combat-credible capability at the speed of relevance.
Job responsibilities
- Leads test engineering, maintenance, and operations for the Victorville test site.
- Responsible for technical adequacy, safety, and effectiveness of ground, taxi, and flight test for the site.
- Drives efficient and effective operations, balancing trade-offs between speed, rigor, and safety. Builds the team and processes needed to optimize and scale.
- Leads technical problem solving, RCCA investigations, and troubleshooting. Comfortable with full scope of problem solving, including hands-on troubleshooting, data review, system analysis, and process review.
- Approves maintenance and test plans. Directs aircraft configuration and ensures readiness for operations.
- Accountable to Head of Test for safe, efficient, and technically adequate operations at the assigned test site.
Job requirements
- 8-15 years of experience in aircraft, weapons, or missile systems development and test.
- Hands-on experience with test, maintenance, and/or test stands.
- Test engineering experience working with developmental systems of manned and/or unmanned aircraft to include requirements development, test planning and execution, and test reporting.
- Ability to quickly understand new concepts, apply them accurately, and organize, schedule, and coordinate work phases to determine the right approach.
- Able to work extended hours as required.
- Ability to travel as required for test planning and execution.
- Ability to immediately obtain a U.S. Top Secret-level security clearance.
- Bias for action – if you see a problem, you want to solve and fix it.