We are supporting a Munich-based deep-tech company building distributed acoustic sensing systems. Their technology needs to be tested in real-world environments, including field trials, drone tests and controlled chamber testing.
They are looking for a Flight Test / Data Engineer who can take ownership of the data side of these tests. This person does not need to come from a flight test background; the most important skill is being able to work with real-world sensor data, process it properly, structure it, score it and identify errors in the data pipeline.
What you’ll do
- Support acoustic data collection from field tests, drone tests and chamber testing.
- Work with drone operators and interns to conduct structured test campaigns.
- Record, process and organise test data.
- Perform post-processing and quality checks on acoustic sensor data.
- Score and structure results in databases.
- Identify, debug and document errors in the data collection and processing flow.
- Help improve how test data is captured, labelled, stored and used by engineering teams.
- Work closely with ML, embedded and hardware engineers to make test data usable.
- Strong data engineering or data processing experience.
- Comfortable working with messy, real-world sensor data.
- Experience with databases and structured data workflows.
- Strong Python or similar scripting skills.
- Ability to debug errors across data collection, storage and processing.
- Practical mindset; happy to be close to real-world testing rather than only working behind a desk.
- Interest in learning flight testing and drone-based data collection on the job.
- Experience with acoustic data or signal processing.
- Experience with drone testing, robotics testing or field testing.
- Experience in defence, aerospace, robotics, autonomous systems or industrial sensing.
- Experience supporting ML teams with high-quality labelled/structured data.
