Aerospace Hardware Test & Automation Engineer I

Kindredventures; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 77,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

Inversion is actively seeking a Hardware Test and Automation Engineer to join the simulation team in Los Angeles. You will design and maintain automated software and hardware systems for flight simulations, enabling rapid integration and validation across the engineering stack.

You will build automations for EGSE, develop flight hardware emulators for SIL/HIL testing, and create robust harnessing to support on-demand, scalable simulation workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering or equivalent.
• 1+ years of hands-on hardware experience.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell).
• Proficiency in embedded languages (C/C++, Rust).
• Experience with Linux-based systems.
• Experience handling and integrating unhoused/open-frame custom electronics and prototype hardware.
• Must have the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to optimize resource utilization and allocation.
• Develop automated test scripts to support qualification efforts for flight software and hardware systems.
• Develop device API wrappers for EGSE equipment (e.g.: to control power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc., via automated test scripts).
• Develop emulators for flight hardware to support software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
• Integrate electronics hardware needed to enable on-demand, hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation workflows (this includes building custom harnessing, performing safe to mate procedures, safely powering-up components, troubleshooting hardware interfaces, etc.).
• Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows

Skills

Bachelor's degree

1+ years hardware experience

Scripting (Python, Lua, Bash)

Embedded languages (C/C++, Rust)

Linux experience

Electronics integration

Security clearance eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Job description

Inversion is actively seeking a Hardware Test and Automation Engineer to join the simulation team in Los Angeles. You will design and maintain automated software and hardware systems for flight simulations, enabling rapid integration and validation across the engineering stack.

You will build automations for EGSE, develop flight hardware emulators for SIL/HIL testing, and create robust harnessing to support on-demand, scalable simulation workflows.