Certification and Airworthiness Specialist
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About Pyka
Pyka’s goal is to provide society with a new form of safe, clean, and cost-effective transportation enabled by autonomous electric aviation.
To get there, we’re taking a different approach than most. We're applying our technologies to every industry where autonomous electric aircraft can be useful, starting with the highest value and most dangerous jobs. In doing so, we're building game-changing products manufactured at scale, while perfecting the safety, reliability, and capabilities of our autonomy engine and electric propulsion systems.
We design, develop and manufacture an ecosystem of technologies including proprietary flight control software, avionics, high power density motors, motor controllers, batteries, and custom carbon-fiber composite airframes.
Today, we supply autonomous electric aircraft for cargo transport and crop protection to real-world customers across four separate continents and have secured industry-first regulatory approvals from the FAA. Our cargo aircraft enables remote connectivity, enhances express delivery networks, and ensures fast and reliable shipping of critical supplies to areas in need. Our crop protection aircraft offers agricultural services providers and farmers an autonomous tool to make aerial application safer, more precise, and less harmful to surrounding environments. Both vehicles are highly economical to operate, easy to deploy, and significantly reduce CO2 emissions in their respective industries.
What you work on at Pyka makes people’s lives better now and brings the future of electric aviation one step closer each day.
Role Overview
Pyka is seeking a driven and detail-oriented full-time Certification and Airworthiness Specialist to support certification and airworthiness efforts of our autonomous aircraft.
In this role, you will leverage your experience working with aviation technical documentation and continued airworthiness initiatives to ensure the certification, airworthiness, and operational approval of the company’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). This will ultimately support Pyka’s mission of delivering safe, clean, and cost-effective autonomous aviation solutions worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Author and maintain UAS flight (UFM) and maintenance (UMM) manuals, ensuring physical fleet hardware and software strictly matches regulatory filings.
- Drive domestic (FAA 44807, Part 11/135/137) and foreign (ANAC, TC, etc.) certification and airworthiness efforts.
- Secure COAs, Experimental Airworthiness Certification Packages, and N-number registrations while managing aircraft conformity and civil aviation authority site audits.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (engineering or aerospace-related field is a plus)
- Familiarity with aircraft regulatory processes (UAS Exemptions, Part 21, Part 23, etc.)
- Excellent cross-functional collaboration, time management, and prioritization skills
- Ability to travel for on-site headquarters visits as needed
- Ability to evaluate evolving hardware, software, and technical specifications against complex legal frameworks to determine licensing requirements and adapt compliance strategies independently.
- Proficiency in drafting, submitting, and tracking administrative applications, permits, and official filings within external agency portals and regulatory databases.
Preferred Qualifications
- 2+ years experience in the Civil Aviation Industry
- Proficiency in Adobe Illustrator, WebManuals, or other technical writing software
- Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence, Slack, Google Suite
- Strong team player who can wear different hats to help your team move forward
- Experience in a “Big” company environment as well as a startup
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Pyka (operating at flypyka.com) is a robotics and autonomous aviation company pioneering the development of dual-use, heavy-lift autonomous aircraft. Founded in 2017 by experienced aviation experts and headquartered in Alameda, California, Pyka is redefining aerial logistics by delivering safe, clean, and cost-effective autonomous electric aviation solutions. Under the hood, the company leverages vertically integrated systems and short take-off and landing (STOL) technology to create aircraft capable of autonomous, mission-ready operations. This innovation enables industries like defense, emergency response, and commercial logistics to achieve faster, more efficient, and sustainable aerial transportation without traditional pilot dependency. Backed by a $40 million Series B funding round led by Obvious Ventures—with participation from Piva Capital and Prelude Ventures—Pyka is accelerating its commercialization efforts to bring next-generation autonomous flight to global markets.
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