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Test Maintenance Engineering Lead

NestX💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-09-09 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and oversee an elite, multi-state organization of maintenance technicians to safeguard commercial drone delivery operations by preventing quality gaps from reaching the commercial fleet.

Role type

Senior Manager/Director of Test Maintenance Engineering

Builds

A distributed maintenance engineering organization and a rigorous quality assurance system for autonomous drone logistics

Domain

Aviation maintenance, autonomous drone logistics, hardware operations

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

organizational design, hiring and scaling distributed teams, hands-on technical troubleshooting, root cause analysis, defect containment, process engineering, cross-functional collaboration, safety culture leadership

Preferred skills

Airframe & Powerplant (A&P) license, military aviation experience, aerospace engineering degree, mechanical maintenance experience

Technologies

drone hardware, test engineering tools, maintenance management systems

Responsibilities

Design managerial hierarchy for multi-state technician workforce, perform hands-on maintenance tasks to lead by example, establish aviation-grade safety and quality standards, proactively resolve technical challenges before commercial deployment, partner with engineering and operations teams to prevent downstream quality escapes

Seniority

Senior Manager/Director, hands-on IC with strategic scope

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