# Flight Test Engineering Manager

At Zone 5 Technologies, we're redefining what's possible in precision weapons and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). Our team of engineers and innovators are developing cutting-edge autonomous solutions to deliver affordable and scalable precision weapons, interceptors, and UAS. We're building the next generation of munitions and unmanned systems for the United States and its allies. If you're driven by hard problems, energized by rapid innovation, and ready to make an impact on defense technology, you belong here. Position Summary As a Test Engineering Manager, you will lead one of the engineering teams within Zone 5's Test & Evaluation organization - which spans flight testing, test operations, and environmental testing - while partnering with T&E leadership and peer managers to grow the discipline's shared methods, tools, and standards. You will be a working manager: accountable for your team's execution against its commitments, and expected to contribute independently at the test engineering level when that is what it takes to get the job done. Your team plans and executes the testing that verifies our air vehicles and their subsystems - from lab and environmental campaigns thro

- **Id**: 4217728
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/zone-5-technologies-flight-test-engineering-manager>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Luis Obispo, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:38:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T03:23:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5918
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Drones & UAVs, Defense Manufacturing

## Company

- **Id**: 684780
- **Name**: Zone 5 Technologies
- **Domain**: zone5technologies.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/zone5technologies>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 32
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.031
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 114
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 178000
- **Max**: 197000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 197000

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T03:23:26Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 105
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T05:54:20Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 197000
- **Is top pay**: no

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