Hypersonic Payload Data & Telemetry Engineer

Stratolaunch; Mojave (CA); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid maternity and parental leave

401(k) match up to $11,500

Job summary

Stratolaunch is seeking an Avionics/Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer (Level I–Sr) to support designing, building, integrating, and testing experimental payloads on Talon-A hypersonic vehicles. You will work with a multidisciplinary team and customers to ensure successful payload data collection and analysis.

The role requires instrumentation, telemetry, and data acquisition experience, with opportunities across bench and in-vehicle testing, and a potential for travel.

Qualifications

• Experience in instrumentation, telemetry, or network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
• Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers.
• Experience working with government procurement processes.
• Experience writing system requirements or the ability to elicit requirements from a customer.
• Experience with designing test equipment to support bench and in-vehicle testing of electronic assemblies.
• Ability to acquire and maintain a DOW security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate experimental payload requirements to determine fit for integration onto a hypersonic test bed.
• Coordinate across teams to define collection and recording of payload data.
• Develop instrumentation and telemetry system requirements; design, test, and operate for customer payloads.
• Develop and support instrumentation and telemetry tests.
• Suggest workflow improvements and process enhancements.
• Support technical reviews and ensure on-time contract deliverables.
• Analyze flight data and generate reports for customers.
• Represent the company professionally in interactions with customers.

Skills

C/C++/C#/Python

Git

Laboratory equipment

MS Office

Security clearance

Flight test instrumentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in engineering

Bachelor’s degree + 2–5 years engineering experience

Bachelor’s degree + 5–10 years engineering experience

Tools

NI LabVIEW

NI DAQmx

Curtiss-Wright DAUs

Git (tooling)

JAMA/Doors

Job description

Stratolaunch is seeking an Avionics/Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer (Level I–Sr) to support designing, building, integrating, and testing experimental payloads on Talon-A hypersonic vehicles. You will work with a multidisciplinary team and customers to ensure successful payload data collection and analysis.

The role requires instrumentation, telemetry, and data acquisition experience, with opportunities across bench and in-vehicle testing, and a potential for travel.