Rocket Propulsion Test Data Engineer

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

Job summary

PAVE Space SA in Villeneuve, Switzerland, is seeking a Crew Propulsion data-focused engineer to turn large volumes of test data into actionable engineering insights. The role emphasizes building data processing pipelines, data cleaning, synchronization, and producing clear reports to support propulsion test campaigns.

The successful candidate will work on on-site campaigns near the Chavalon test site, contributing to the data backbone behind Switzerland's ambitious propulsion program and

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.

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

Python

MATLAB

Time-series analysis

Sensor calibration

Data storytelling

Tools

LabVIEW

National Instruments

Dewesoft

HBM

Beckhoff

CFD

FEA

Modelica

Simulink

EcosimPro

Job description

PAVE Space SA in Villeneuve, Switzerland, is seeking a Crew Propulsion data-focused engineer to turn large volumes of test data into actionable engineering insights. The role emphasizes building data processing pipelines, data cleaning, synchronization, and producing clear reports to support propulsion test campaigns.

The successful candidate will work on on-site campaigns near the Chavalon test site, contributing to the data backbone behind Switzerland's ambitious propulsion program and