Flight Instrumentation Engineer

Isar Aerospace

Ottobrunn, Germany

Your Mission

As part of the Avionics, Guidance, Navigation and Control (AGNC) team, you will move horizontally across the design teams, focusing on the instrumentation of Spectrum. You will be responsible for the selection and qualification of the vehicle’s sensors, while maintaining the corresponding interfaces across the departments. Furthermore, you will work with all design teams to select and integrate sensor components, define operative procedures, and test the equipment for flight hardware and respective prototypes.

More specifically, you will:

Be the focal point for sensor systems on the vehicle
- Establish design and operative standards for flight instrumentation
- Perform hands-on assembly and testing of equipment
- Support all design teams in the selection and qualification of sensors
- Support the manufacturing and testing teams in the definition of operative procedures such as assembly, calibration, and data evaluation
Perform qualitative and quantitative checks on the sensors on-board the vehicle
- Improvement of the already existing selection of instrumentation
- Propose alternatives and assist the design teams in the selection process when needed
- Ensure the sensors are properly mounted on the vehicle to serve their purpose and survive the vehicle’s environments
Own and maintain the fight sensor list across the vehicle
- Align with the design teams and periodically update the list and sensor configuration files
- Ensure all interfaces are bridged and up to date.
Select the appropriate connectors according to the chosen sensors
Perform functional and environmental qualification of the selected sensors
Estimate and calculate errors resulting from the measurement chain in the corresponding systems
Assist with the integration of flight sensors to the Flight Test Instrumentation system

Who you are and what you have

BSc/MSc in Electrical/Aerospace Engineering, Computer Science, Messtechniker or similar
Knowledge in handling sensor typical for the aerospace industry (microphones, rotation sensors, switches, position sensors, gas detectors, and more)
Extensive experience with mechanical and thermal system characterization using accelerometers, strain gauges, pressure transducers, RTDs, etc.
Extensive experience in the selection and usage of pressure transducers (absolute, gauge, differential, and more)
Strong hands-on experience with assembly and calibration of sensor systems
Experience in the development, usage or build-up of data acquisition systems or test rigs
Understanding of calibration technics for sensors and data acquisition systems
Know-how of common communication protocols
Basic knowledge in Python, C++, or similar
Fluent in English