Senior Flight Ops Technician

What You'll Do: • Build, modify, assemble, maintain, and repair prototype unmanned aircraft and related test systems. • Install and integrate avionics, sensors, compute hardware, radios, antennas, payloads, wiring, and other experimental hardware. • Fabricate prototype and replacement components using 3D printing, hand and power tools, and other rapid-prototyping methods. • Build, modify, and troubleshoot wiring harnesses, connectors, electrical assemblies, and aircraft electrical systems. • Build, wire, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot HIL rigs, test fixtures, and related engineering test infrastructure. • Integrate flight computers, avionics, sensors, actuators, communications equipment, and other aircraft hardware into HIL and bench-test environments. • Diagnose mechanical, electrical, avionics, communications, networking, and system-level issues across aircraft and test equipment. • Support SIL, HIL, VIL, bench, ground, and live-flight testing, including aircraft functional checks and troubleshooting. • Perform aircraft inspections, maintenance, repairs, configuration changes, and pre- and post-flight activities. • Help establish and maintain a local prototyping and flight-operations lab, including tools, test equipment, fabrication equipment, spares, batteries, and support equipment. • Support flight operations, including aircraft setup, launch and recovery, test-site setup and teardown, and preparation of equipment for field deployments. • Maintain aircraft, test-system, maintenance, configuration, inventory, and other technical documentation. • Work closely with hardware, software, autonomy, and flight-test engineers to rapidly diagnose problems, implement modifications, and improve test capabilities. • Transport personnel and equipment to test sites and travel within Ukraine to support testing, demonstrations, and operations. • Mentor less-experienced technicians and maintain high standards for workmanship, configuration control, organization, and safety. Required Qualifications: • 5+ years of hands-on experience in UAS, aviation, aerospace, robotics, electronics, manufacturing, test support, or a related technical field. • Strong mechanical and electrical aptitude with experience building, modifying, maintaining, or repairing complex electromechanical systems. • Experience integrating hardware into aircraft, robotics, prototypes, test systems, or comparable platforms. • Hands-on electrical experience, including wiring, connectors, soldering, crimping, cable fabrication, and electrical troubleshooting. • Experience building, maintaining, or troubleshooting HIL rigs, test stands, test fixtures, or similar hardware/software integration environments. • Ability to read and work from mechanical drawings, wiring diagrams, schematics, and engineering documentation • Experience with rapid prototyping, fabrication, and iterative hardware development. • Ability to systematically troubleshoot mechanical, electrical, communications, and system-level problems. • Experience using common mechanical and electrical tools and test equipment. • Experience supporting engineering, ground, flight, or field testing. • Strong attention to detail, workmanship, safety, and configuration control. • Ability to work independently and solve technical problems in fast-moving workshop, laboratory, flight-line, and field environments. • Valid driver's license and ability to transport equipment and personnel to operational sites. • Ability to travel within Ukraine as required. Preferred Qualifications: * Experience maintaining or integrating fixed-wing and multirotor UAS. * Experience with autonomous or experimental aircraft and Group 1 or Group 2 UAS. * Experience building or maintaining HIL environments for aircraft, robotics, or autonomous systems. * Experience with 3D printing, CAD, and prototype part fabrication. * Experience integrating avionics, flight computers, sensors, actuators, radios, antennas, or paylo