Senior Validation Engineer

Our Company

Whisper Aero is pioneering a more compelling and connected future by delivering cleaner, quieter, and more efficient propulsion solutions. Today's open rotor propulsion systems are challenged by safety, noise, and performance limitations at all scales. Whisper's breakthrough technologies allow aircraft to fly anywhere at any time without disturbing communities, at greater speeds, and with incredible improvements in efficiency and cost. Their innovations also enable a new generation of air moving products that can blend into the soundscapes of daily life. Whisper was founded by industry veterans, Mark Moore and Ian Villa, and continues to innovate a future that’s as considerate as it is compelling with its world-class team in Tennessee. 

About the Role 

Whisper Aero is seeking a Senior Validation Engineer to support Air Management and bring our outdoor power equipment business to market while working in Nashville, TN. As a Senior Validation Engineer at Whisper Aero, you will architect and execute verification tests across our Air Management new product development programs.  You will own end-to-end test plan development and execution, ensuring accurate and timely data collection, analysis, and reporting to validate Whisper’s new products meet design requirements. 

What You’ll Do 

• End to End Test Development: Define test objectives, design verification plans, and develop test protocols to verify product and system level requirements, detailing pass/fail criteria, sampling strategies, and data collection requirements.   

• Sample Allocation & Timeline Management: Coordinate allocation of prototypes and production samples across multiple tests to keep hardware development and release schedules on track, maintaining a clear test‑timeline that integrates with program milestones. 

• Outsourced Testing & Vendor Management: Select, coordinate and oversee third‑party test labs for reliability, safety and compliance testing on prototype units. 

• Regulatory & Certification Support: Lead UL (and, where relevant, CE/RoHS) certification efforts by ensuring all safety and performance standards are met and rapidly escalating any failures to the team. 

• Team Leadership: Mentor and task our incoming test technician, ensuring they carry out protocols correctly, maintain equipment, and capture high‑quality data. 

• Data Analysis & Reporting: Analyze test outputs, generate actionable reports, and present findings & recommendations to product and engineering teams. 

• Continuous Improvement: Drive test‑process efficiencies, recommend automation or tooling upgrades, and feed insights back into future designs. 

• Test Rig Design: Design and build test rigs to improve repeatability and streamlines test processes.

• Design and Assembly Improvements: Implement design modifications, propose assembly process improvements, and design fixtures and jigs to address test failures.

Basic Qualifications 

• U.S. Person status is required, as this position may access export-controlled data. 

• Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, electrical, aerospace engineering or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Typically requires 5 or more years in consumer product testing (validation, performance, reliability, safety), ideally with mass production or high-volume hardware 

• Experience utilizing 3D CAD Software (Solidworks) to design test fixtures and components is required. 

• Proven experience with vendor management, collaborating with and overseeing external test labs is required.

• Proven experience designing, building and programming automated test fixtures is required.

• Familiarity with test protocol development, sensor selection, and data acquisition software (e.g., LabVIEW) is required.

Bonus Qualifications 

• Experience testing power tools, lawn‑care equipment or other light industrial/consumer hardware. 

• Familiarity with statistical methods for design of experiments (DOE), sample size determination, and basic statistical analysis for test planning. 

• Knowledge of manufacturing processes in contract‑manufacturing environments.

• Prior involvement with UL, CE, RoHS or similar safety standard certifications. 

• Exposure to automated data‑acquisition systems or custom test‑software development. 

Benefits: 

• Top-tier Benefits: 100% paid Medical, dental, and vision for employees, 75% paid for dependents

• PTO & Federal Holidays: Starting at four weeks of paid time off for vacation, sick, and personal days

• Competitive Salary: Value-based compensation, plus enjoy Tennessee’s no-income-tax life

• End of Year Bonuses: For eligible employees

• We always have beverages and snacks available to energize you throughout the day, with paid team meals based on office demands.

• 401(k) 

• Relocation Assistance

• Professional Development Stipend

Whisper Aero is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusivity in the workplace. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Whisper Aero also participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each applicant's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.