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Flight Operations and Training

• Serve as pilot in command for WingXpand aircraft during demonstrations, flight test, training, and customer events.
• Operate and instruct on our unmanned ground vehicle and unmanned surface vessel alongside the aircraft.
• Own the operations program across all three domains — standardization, currency requirements, crew qualification standards, and the operations manual.
• Build and deliver the operator training program across classroom, simulator, and hands-on flight instruction, and certify operators against it.
• Write and maintain training documentation, standard operating procedures, checklists, and instructional materials.
• Train military, government, and commercial operators on our platforms, payloads, and mission planning.
• Manage airspace authorizations and regulatory compliance for company flight operations, including COAs, Part 107 waivers, restricted airspace requirements, and range coordination.
• Run internal flight test sorties for product validation and new capability evaluation, and capture structured data from them.
• Own flight safety — risk management, mishap investigation, and lessons learned.

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Customer Engagement and Business Development

• Represent WingXpand at industry events, customer demonstrations, exercises, and operational experimentation venues, from capability briefs to running the systems on a range.
• Support customer evaluations, exercises, operational testing, and field experimentation.
• Own customer relationships coming out of demonstrations and fieldings, and keep them warm between events.
• Support proposal development, including SBIR submissions, RFP and RFI responses, white papers, and past-performance and CONOPS sections.
• Help shape how we pitch capability — translating what operators need into how we describe and position the product.
• Assist customers with mission planning, system setup, troubleshooting, and operational best practices.
• Own the field feedback loop into engineering, turning what operators actually do into product and training changes.
• Travel to customer sites, military installations, trade shows, and training events. Expect roughly 40%.

• 5+ years operating unmanned aircraft in a military, government, or defense industry role.
• Experience as an instructor, standardization operator, evaluator, or master trainer, formal or informal.
• Hands-on experience with Group 1 or Group 2 UAS, fixed-wing preferred.
• Interest in operating ground and surface robots as well as aircraft. We don't expect you to arrive with UGV or USV time — we expect you to want it.
• Demonstrated ability to build training content, not only to deliver someone else's.
• Comfortable in a customer-facing role — briefing program offices, working an industry event, and representing a company rather than a unit.
• Genuine curiosity about how the system works, and interest in sitting with engineers to make it better rather than just reporting that it's broken.
• A bias toward the end user. You should care whether an operator can actually run this thing under load, tired, in bad conditions.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and the credibility to hold a room of experienced operators.
• Calm and effective in the field — able to work independently, diagnose problems on the flight line, and keep a demonstration on track when something breaks.
• FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate, or the ability to obtain one within 30 days of hire. We'll cover the cost.
• Willingness to travel regularly throughout the United States.

• Prior military service in UAS operations, aviation, intelligence, reconnaissance, artillery, or special operations. Army 15W and 15E, the new 15X Tactical UAS Specialist, and 150U UAS Operations Technician all translate directly, as do USMC 7314 and equivalent Navy and Air Force ratings.
• Standardization Pilot, Instructor Operator, Unit Trainer, Master Trainer, or Evaluator qualification.
• Group 3 UAS or manned aviation experience. FAA Part 61 certificates, CFI, or ATP.
• Experience obtaining COAs, Part 107 waivers, or airworthiness releases.
• Experience supporting military exercises, operational testing, or field experimentation.
• Proposal or capture experience — SBIR, RFP responses, color team reviews, or past-performance writing.
• An existing network in the Army, SOF, or public safety UAS community.
• Experience in a field service representative, field applications, or customer-facing defense industry role.
• Familiarity with ATAK, tactical radios, mission planning software, and autopilot ground control stations.
• Experience building a training program or syllabus from scratch.

Every full-time employee at WingXpand receives stock options. Equity is a core part of how we pay, not an afterthought, and early team members share directly in the company's growth as we scale. Additionally, we offer medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, and unlimited paid time off for vacation, illness, and personal needs, plus paid company holidays.