Originally Posted by
Cubdriver
This is a job for former AF & Navy test pilots who want to get out of the service. I am surprised they are even listing publicly. My guess is they only consider pilots with prior military flight test experience, being a former fighter pilot is not good enough to test prototype airborne weapons systems. They already know who can do this job. Where is it listed? Occasionally if they need some temporary help they will run it through a contract house to try and get pilots working for other military hardware firms to apply.
As a condition of their federal contracts, they have to post job openings publicly unless they are only accepting internal transfers for the position. Since Bob in accounting probably doesn't have quals to do this job, they have to hire outside. The pool of legit candidates is small and already well know but they still have to advertise.