# Flight Test Engineer

About Voltair Voltair is building the world’s first distributed network of drones for earth observation. We envision a world where after a major storm, an operator of critical infrastructure can simply sign into our platform and dispatch a drone. Within minutes, we will identify high risk hazards and stream issues directly to crews on the ground. We serve power utilities, hyper scalers, wildland firefighting and DOTs. With our long range drones, we can achieve autonomous coverage of the entire continental U.S. with ~5000 ground installations. We operate as a full stack service, meaning we build drones, deploy them, capture data, analyze it, and deliver the results on our software platform. Our first market is power utilities. We’ve serviced multiple utilities already, and are preparing for our biggest deployment with a large multinational utility later this year. The Role We’re looking for a Flight Test Engineer who is equally comfortable soldering a wiring harness on the bench and operating a 54lb fixed-wing aircraft in the field. This is not a pure R&D flight-test role and it's not a pure operations role, it's both. You'll build and validate the test fixtures and hardware that ke

- **Id**: 1238767
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/voltair-flight-test-engineer>
- **Role**: Aerospace
- **Role family**: Aerospace
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-25T16:29:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T06:51:51Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2218
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drones & UAVs, Earth Observation

## Company

- **Id**: 2142325
- **Name**: Voltair
- **Domain**: voltairlabs.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/voltairlabs>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 92000
- **Max usd**: 167000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 108

## Technologies

- **ArduPilot** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 1
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T16:29:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 11
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.383
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:tail, crowd:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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