Certification & Airworthiness Engineer (UAV)

The role

The technician will support the flight safety manager by managing regulatory files and operational compliance. This includes handling SORA and PPDRA files, monitoring EASA regulations, and coordinating with authorities and airfield managers.

What you will do

• Write and follow authorization requests in specific categories (SORA, PPDRA, STS declarations)
• Prepare airspace access files and protocols with airfield managers
• Maintain the MANEX and procedures
• Monitor EASA and French regulatory evolutions
• Act as the operational contact for DGAC/DSAC
• Prepare audits and controls for management and flight site visits
• Perform compliance checks during flights with the flight safety manager
• Verify documentation including pilot qualifications, aircraft registration, authorizations, and insurance
• Contribute to incident analysis and procedure improvement
• Visit airfields and flight test centers to verify compliance and write visit reports

Required qualifications

• Bac+2 to Bac+5 in aeronautics, air regulation or equivalent
• Mastery of SORA and PPDRA writing with previously submitted files
• Knowledge of the EASA drone framework (open, specific and certified categories, STS, LUC)
• Knowledge of the DGAC/DSAC ecosystem
• Good notions of airspace and coordination with airfield managers
• Professional English
• Rigor, writing quality, autonomy, interpersonal skills, taste for field work
• Frequent travel to test sites and airfields
• Driving license B indispensable
• Presence on flight sites, sometimes during shifted hours or over several days

Nice to have

• Knowledge of State aircraft regulation (DSAÉ)
• Remote pilot certificate or operational flight experience
• Experience in the Defense sector

About the company

Alta Ares is an air defense Neoprime that builds AI-guided interceptors to counter drones and cruise missiles. Founded in 2024, the company has 90 people and serves NATO-aligned militaries and defense institutions.