Avionics Environmental Test Engineer

Telemetry Today LLC; California; On-site; USD 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid maternity and parental leave

401(k) with 50% match up to $11,500

Job summary

Stratolaunch in Mojave, CA seeks an Environmental Test Engineer to lead qualification and acceptance testing of avionics hardware across development lifecycles. You will translate requirements into practical test programs, design and build test systems, execute tests, and document results.

You’ll collaborate with avionics and environmental teams to define verification objectives, develop test procedures, and ensure compliance with RCC-324, RCC-319, MIL-STD-461 and customer standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field with 1–2 years relevant experience.
• Experience with environmental test campaigns, including thermal cycling, vibration, and shock.
• Ability to troubleshoot electrical, software, instrumentation, and hardware-in-the-loop test issues.
• Strong documentation skills for procedures, reports, and discrepancy records.

Responsibilities

• Own qualification and acceptance test planning, execution, analysis, and reporting for avionics components and assemblies.
• Collaborate with avionics engineers and environmental analysts to define verification requirements, test objectives, instrumentation, and success criteria.
• Develop qualification and acceptance test plans, procedures, test reports, and supporting documentation.
• Design and support the build of electrical test systems, including instrumentation, harnessing, fixtures, and data-acquisition systems.
• Develop Python-based scripts and tools for test data collection, analysis, and limited automation.
• Support functional, thermal, vibration, shock, and thermal-vacuum testing, including troubleshooting and test anomaly resolution.
• Review test configurations and results for compliance with RCC-324, RCC-319, MIL-STD-461, and related customer or program requirements.
• Communicate test status, risks, anomalies, and recommendations to engineering and program stakeholders.

Skills

Electrical engineering

Software engineering

Avionics

Test systems design

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Level I: BS in Engineering + 1–2 yrs exp

Level II: BS in Engineering + 2–5 yrs exp

Sr Level: BS in Engineering + 5–8 yrs exp

Staff Level: BS in Engineering + 8+ yrs exp

Tools

NIcDAQ

Data acquisition hardware

Python

PyVISA/VISA

Job description

Stratolaunch in Mojave, CA seeks an Environmental Test Engineer to lead qualification and acceptance testing of avionics hardware across development lifecycles. You will translate requirements into practical test programs, design and build test systems, execute tests, and document results.

You’ll collaborate with avionics and environmental teams to define verification objectives, develop test procedures, and ensure compliance with RCC-324, RCC-319, MIL-STD-461 and customer standards.