Senior​/Principal Engineer, Aircraft Systems Certification

Role and Responsibilities:

• Lead technical responses to the FAA for our Part 23 and Part 33 certification projects

• Create documentation for requirements, means of compliance, and verification/validation reports for submission to the FAA

• Review FAA feedback and provide responses

• Support negotiation of requirements, means of compliance, and interpretation of verification/validation reports

• Manage certification requirements and flow down

• Lead interaction with the engineering development team to negotiate and flow down certification requirements

• Support engineering design and/or V&V efforts as appropriate

• Support the CTO on resolution of novel technology negotiations with the FAA

• Support the Director of Certification in managing the FAA certification process

• Position based at Long Beach HQ facility

• Reports to the CTO

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant engineering discipline

• 8 years of increasing responsibilities in aerospace, or equivalent, FAA Part 23 certification projects

• Expert knowledge of G-1 certification basis and G-2 means/methods of compliance

• Expert knowledge of Part 23-64 and special condition process

• Expert knowledge developing compliance matrices for Subparts B thru G

• Expert knowledge of aircraft requirements management & tools

• Master’s degree in relevant engineering discipline
• 15 years of relevant experience
• Executed FAA Part 23 major modification supplemental type certification (STC) projects or Part 33 projects through certification
• Expert knowledge of ARP
  4761, ARP
  4754, and Parts 25, 43, 91, and 135
• Familiarity with electrified propulsion certification-intent projects