Flight test pilot

Cloudline is revolutionising aerial operations with autonomous, solar-powered airships that have unmatched endurance and payloads capability at a fraction of the operating cost of manned aviation and conventional drones.

Flight Test Pilot

Flight testing sits at the core of Cloudline’s product development. We are looking for a flight test pilot to join our team and test our airship designs and payload systems in order to provide engineering and production feedback as well as develop our operational systems. You will be responsible for designing the flight profiles with the engineers in order to gather the data needed, improve the flightline and operational procedures, maintain our fleet of airships, test new payload systems, conduct flight tests and ground tests of our airships and their systems, and travel for deployments and build them out.

Requirements

• Remote Pilot License (RPL) holder
• Core understanding of flight principles
• Experience in the unmanned aviation sector
• Keen to build standards, processes and engage in product development
• Experience with various drone payload systems, e.g. multispectral camera, 3D mapping camera, etc.
• Experience with processing drone payload data, e.g. Pix4D experience
• Keen interest in planning UAV flights, executing them, and processing the collected data
• Able to problem solve creatively and quickly
• Ability to find and fix technical problems related to unmanned vehicles

Other Requirements

• Based in Cape Town, South Africa, or willing to relocate (no work permit sponsorship available for this role)
• Ability to travel as required

Benefits

In addition to a dynamic startup environment with growth and development opportunities, we also offer:

• Equity in the form of employee share options
• Private health insurance
• Paid time off
• Training & development

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