FPV Drone UAS & MQT Instructor

Position: FPV Drone UAS & MQT Instructor

Type: Full-time

Location: JEB Little Creek (EOTACS), Virginia Beach, VA

Travel: 10%

** Contingent Upon Award**

The FPV Drone UAS & MQT Instructor provides fulltime, onsite instruction and technical support to NSWG1 and NSWG2, developing, implementing, and instructing FPV curriculum; facilitating weekly currency flights and technical support; scheduling airspace, ranges, and facilities; and ensuring proper flight logging and compliance with standards. The instructor helps establish proficiency standards, integrates current hardware/software and operational payloads, and supports procurement inputs to further NSW UAS capabilities.

The role operates within a rigorous security and safety framework and contributes monthly reporting to the Government.

• Develop, implement, and instruct FPV curriculum; facilitate NSWG‑1/NSWG‑2 COIs.

• Plan/facilitate training events including facility, airspace, and range access

• Conduct weekly currency flights and provide technical support (e.g., repairs, troubleshooting)

• Schedule airspace/ranges/facilities and support material inputs for FPV procurement & maintenance

• Establish/validate proficiency standards (simulated/live hours, live/ordinance integrated strikes)

• Integrate current UAS components/software; maintain currency on tactical applications

• Ensure proper flight logging after training/events; submit monthly reports to COR

• Must hold an active Secret Security Clearance

• Valid U.S. driver’s license

• Ability to obtain a DoD CAC

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)

• Clear and effective verbal and written communication

• U.S. Citizen with a valid U.S. passport throughout PoP

• Ability to maintain a UAS flight physical

• Subject to drug testing requirements as specified (preemployment and random during PoP)

• Provide monthly reports and participate in Government quality surveillance as required

• Experience 3+ years flying, troubleshooting, and fixing FPVs across multiple UAS platforms in contested environments

• Experience 3+ years with Beta flight and FPV simulator software

• Experience implementing/evaluating/executing training curriculum for foundational flight and advanced piloting in combat/contested environments

• Experience with soldering PCBAs and connecting electrical wiring.

• Experience in cross-functional DoD teams

• Experience vetting cutting-edge FPV/sUAS/cUAS hardware and software

• Experience integrating operational payloads/communication pathways into UAS

• Experience in counter-UAS TTPs

• Hands‑On
  
  Experience:
  
  With kinetic FPVs and associated employment techniques in recent conflicts

• Certification: FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot

• Work is not sedentary; requires walking, climbing shipboard stairs, standing, stooping, bending; must have adequate eyesight/hearing; no debilitating conditions that preclude austere environments or regular attendance.

• Ability to lift 50 lbs.

• Physically capable of instructing in the desert, jungle, uneven terrain, and maritime environments while maintaining situational awareness.

• Provide medical readiness documentation from a provider.

Physical Demands and Work Environment : While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk, listen, and write. The employee frequently is required to use foot/ankle motions, hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is required to stand, walk, sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be the best qualified for the position and successfully perform the functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made (if possible) to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Seventh Dimension LLC provides focused customer support in two core competencies Training & Support Services. Since 2015, we have provided customers with flexible, adaptable, and creative approaches to solving complex problems. We are a proven prime contractor that understands future operating environments, fiscal constraints, and current force requirements. We are a SDVOSB in North Carolina with a TS Facility Clearance, Secret storage and a DCAA compliant accounting system.

Disclaimer: This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to…