Rocket Propulsion Data Engineer — Insight from Test Data

PAVE Space SA.; Villeneuve (VD); Remote; CHF 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

PAVE Space SA. in Villeneuve, VD is seeking a Crew Propulsion Data Engineer to turn rocket test data into actionable insights.

You will build processing pipelines for large sensor data and collaborate across propulsion, fluidics, structures, and systems teams to improve test outcomes. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of hands-on data work in aerospace or related fields, strong Python/MATLAB skills, and expertise in time-series analysis and sensor calibration.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on experience processing engineering test data.
• Strong Python and/or MATLAB skills.
• Experience with time-series data, filtering, signal processing, and sensor calibration.
• Ability to work with real hardware test data, not just clean textbook datasets.
• Solid engineering fundamentals in thermodynamics, heat transfer, structural mechanics, or vibration/dynamics.
• Experience producing clear plots, reports, and technical conclusions.
• Strong attention to detail, traceability, and data quality.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test data processing pipelines
• Clean, synchronize, filter, calibrate, and validate raw test data
• Process data from propulsion, fluidics, structural, thermal, and system-level tests
• Generate post-test plots, dashboards, reports, and engineering summaries
• Detect sensor issues, timing errors, drift, noise, saturation, and anomalies
• Compare test results against models, requirements, and acceptance criteria
• Support hot-fire, cold-flow, pressure, leak, vibration, thermal, and functional testing
• Work with test, propulsion, fluidics, structures, GNC, and systems engineers to interpret results
• Maintain traceable datasets, scripts, reports, and test records
• Help define instrumentation, sampling rates, data channels, and test-data requirements before campaigns

Skills

Test data processing

Python

MATLAB

Time-series data

Signal processing

Sensor calibration

Hardware test data

Thermodynamics

Heat transfer

Structural mechanics

Vibration

Data visualization

Attention to detail

Tools

LabVIEW

National Instruments

Dewesoft

HBM

Beckhoff

Job description

PAVE Space SA. in Villeneuve, VD is seeking a Crew Propulsion Data Engineer to turn rocket test data into actionable insights.

You will build processing pipelines for large sensor data and collaborate across propulsion, fluidics, structures, and systems teams to improve test outcomes. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of hands-on data work in aerospace or related fields, strong Python/MATLAB skills, and expertise in time-series analysis and sensor calibration.