Certify what has never flown.
A sector still writing its own rules. Certification pathways are being defined in real time, propulsion is electric, and the aircraft has no predecessor to learn from. Akkar builds the engineering, certification, and supply chain teams behind the companies attempting it.
The rulebook is being written midflight.
eVTOL companies are certifying aircraft against standards that didn't exist a decade ago, using propulsion the regulators have limited precedent for. Every hire carries programme risk.
Certification is the critical path
Type certification decides who reaches market and who runs out of runway. Engineers who can navigate an evolving regulatory basis, and hold a credible position with the authority, are the scarcest people in the sector.
The talent comes from three industries at once
Electric propulsion sits in automotive. Airworthiness sits in aerospace. Autonomy sits in defence and AVs. Building an eVTOL team means recruiting across all three and integrating them.
Production capability arrives before revenue
These businesses must build manufacturing capability while still certifying. That means hiring industrialisation and quality talent long before there's a product to sell.
Expertise across the aircraft and the certification path.
We recruit across the disciplines eVTOL programmes need, and from the aerospace, automotive, and defence markets supplying most of the talent.
The people building a new category of aircraft.
From chief engineers to the specialists who hold the certification basis, these are the families we recruit for most.
Built around how eVTOL programmes hire.
The engagement models we use most in advanced air mobility. Each links to the full solution page.
An exclusive, committed search for hires that are too important to leave to chance or volume.
A focused search engagement for defined roles where speed matters, but relevance matters more.
A fast, focused route to contractors and interim professionals who can keep technical programmes moving.
A dedicated Akkar recruiter working inside your business, for as long as the hiring need requires.
An exclusive, time-bound search with committed resource and a defined shortlist; the focus of retained, without the full retained structure.
More on the market writing its own rulebook.
Certification, propulsion, and cross sector hiring, explored by the team living in this market daily.
Building an aircraft that has no precedent?
Tell us what the programme has to certify and by when. We'll define the capability required, find where it exists, and build the connection.
