{"id":2082980,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer","title":"Flight Test Instrumentation & Data Engineer","company":{"id":675654,"name":"Dufour Aerospace","domain":"dufour.aero","url":"https://alion.io/company/dufour-2","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Join","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dübendorf, Switzerland"],"countries":["CH"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":66000,"max_usd":179000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":865},"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"InfluxDB","optional":false},{"name":"MATLAB","optional":false},{"name":"NumPy","optional":false},{"name":"Pandas","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"SciPy","optional":false},{"name":"Time Series Forecasting","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-08T09:09:54Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-08","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T03:00:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":9,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":9},"description":"The Flight Test Instrumentation (FTI) & Data Engineer will be responsible for the end-to-end handling, quality assurance, accessibility, and long-term management of all flight data. 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Hardware, Sensors & DAQ Architecture\nStrong understanding of physical sensors (e.g., strain gauges, accelerometers, thermocouples, pressure transducers, RTDs, LVDTs, pitot-static tubes).\nDemonstrated knowledge of signal conditioning, sampling rate selection, anti-aliasing filtering, scaling, and sensor calibration procedures.\n2. Data Infrastructure & Software Development\nProficient in Python or MATLAB for data analysis, automated data processing, and visualization library development (e.g., Pandas, NumPy, SciPy).\nExperience working with time-series databases, specifically InfluxDB (or similar engines), including writing efficient queries (Flux/InfluxQL) and data retrieval pipelines.\nSolid foundation in data structures and memory/CPU optimization when handling high-memory high-frequency continuous time-series datasets.\n3. Data Integrity & Signal Processing\nExperience with timestamping and clock synchronization protocols across distributed DAQ hardware and storage nodes.\nKnowledge of basic digital signal processing (DSP) concepts (filtering, FFT, spectral analysis, decimation/resampling).\nSoft Skills & Work Style\nCross-functional communication: Ability to bridge the gap between hardware technicians, flight physics/aerodynamics engineers, and software teams.\nDetail-oriented mindset: Uncompromising rigor regarding calibration metadata, unit conversions, and data accuracy.\nAdaptability: Drive to continuously improve data infrastructure as aircraft sensor counts, test frequencies, and analytical needs expand.\nPreferred / Bonus Qualifications\nKnowledge of standard FAA / EASA flight test instrumentation requirements or military flight test standards (e.g. IRIG 106).\nFamiliarity with dashboarding tools (e.g., Grafana) for rapid post-flight previews and real-time telemetry display.\nExperience with version control systems (Git) and CI/CD pipelines for internal engineering tool distribution.\nDirect experience with DAQ systems and digital bus protocols (CAN bus, ARINC 429, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet/UDP, PCM).\nFamiliarity with binary flight data formats (e.g., IRIG 106 Chapter 10/11, MDF/MF4, HDF5, Parquet, or custom binary loggers).\nExperience with performing on-aircraft hardware troubleshooting (e.g., tracking down ground loops, signal noise, dropouts, or faulty scaling).","description_format":"text","description_chars":4995,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Aircraft Manufacturing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-08T11:06:23Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":76,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.757,"p_room":1,"age_days":8,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T07:12:27Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":10784,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":675654},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=675654"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdufour-aerospace-flight-test-instrumentation-data-engineer"}]}