Flight Support Engineer - Night Shift
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Flight Support Engineer needed in Brazil for night shift (9pm-5am BRT). Requires technical knowledge, preferably with flight operations experience (manned or UAV). Must be able to travel to customer sites up to 50% of the time. Strong communication skills are essential.
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About Pyka Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation. To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems. We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes. Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions in their respective industries. What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.
Role Overview Pyka is looking for a flight support engineer, based in Brazil, to support the development and commercial deployments of its advanced autonomous aircraft. You will be overseeing the deployed fleet and supporting internal and customer operators throughout commercial operations. This is your opportunity to evaluate, support and polish the aircraft of the future. After a four weeks initial training, you will spend up to 50% of your time deployed at customer sites. This position requires the ability to work from 9pm to 5am BRT. This is a multidisciplinary role that interacts with internal and external organizations, so written and verbal communication skills are critical. You will be instrumental in ensuring the standardization of aircraft ground and flight operations and procedures, instructional techniques, as well as informing the evolution of the product itself. An engineering degree is not required, although the candidate must be technically knowledgeable, preferably with experience with flight operations with either manned aircraft or UAVs.
What you'll do
- Overseeing the deployed fleet and supporting internal and customer operators throughout commercial operations.
- Evaluating, supporting and polishing the aircraft of the future.
- Ensuring the standardization of aircraft ground and flight operations and procedures, instructional techniques.
- Informing the evolution of the product itself.
What they require
- This position requires the ability to work from 9pm to 5am BRT.
- This is a multidisciplinary role that interacts with internal and external organizations, so written and verbal communication skills are critical.
- An engineering degree is not required, although the candidate must be technically knowledgeable, preferably with experience with flight operations with either manned aircraft or UAVs.
- This position requires access to technology, software and other information that is subject to governmental access control restrictions, due to export controls.
- Employment in this position is conditioned on the continued availability of government authorization to authorize release of such items, to the extent required, including without limitation an export license, or other documentation required to establish authorization to receive access to such items.
- Company may delay commencement of employment, rescind an offer of employment, terminate employment, and/or may modify job responsibilities, compensation, benefits, and/or access to Company facilities and information systems, as Company deems appropriate, in order to ensure compliance with applicable government access control restrictions.
Pyka provides safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation, designing, developing, and manufacturing autonomous electric aircraft and related technologies for cargo transport and crop protection.