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Virginia Beach, VA
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Job Description
Position title : FPV Instructor
Location : Virginia Beach, Virginia
Clearance required : SECRET
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
Qualifications
Qualifications:
Location : Virginia Beach, Virginia
Clearance required : SECRET
Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):
- Build, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot tactical UAS platforms and associated payloads.
- Conduct flight operations in contested electromagnetic environments, maritime conditions, and degraded visual conditions (low-light/night).
- Integrate tactical UAS employment into small unit maneuver operations, including target identification, grid relay, kinetic strikes, and counter-UAS operations.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Ability to maintain a UAS flight physical.
- Documentation of physical readiness from a medical provider.
- Possess a valid U.S driver's license.
- Ability to lift objects of 50 lbs.
- Three years of experience flying, troubleshooting and fixing FPVs across multiple UAS platforms from a tactical perspective in contested environments.
- Experience implementing, evaluating, and executing training curriculum for:
- Foundational flight fundamentals.
- Advanced piloting skills for combat and contested environments.
- Familiarity with soldering Printed Circuit Board Assemblies (PCBAs) and connecting electrical wires.
- Experience working in cross-functional teams, preferably across components within DoD.
- Experience with vetting cutting edge hardware and software technology within FPVs, sUAS, and cUAS systems.
- Proven background of electronics safety, fundamentals, and best practices.
- Three years' experience with Betaflight and FPV simulator software.
- Experience integrating variety of current and relevant operational payloads and communication pathways into UAS.
- Experience in Counter UAS Operations, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.
- Experience employing FPVs in real-world combat scenarios.
- FAA Part 107 certified drone pilot.
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