Hypersonic Payloads Avionics Engineer

Stratolaunch, LLC; Mojave (CA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 104,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

401(k) match

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Job summary

Stratolaunch, LLC seeks a Level I–Sr Avionics or Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer to design, build, integrate, and test experimental payloads on the Talon-A hypersonic vehicles. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team, program management, and customers to deliver data-rich payloads for challenging tests.

The role emphasizes instrumentation, telemetry, data acquisition, and requirements development, with travel as needed and a strong commitment to safety and security.

Qualifications

• Experience in instrumentation, telemetry, or network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
• Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers.
• Experience with government procurement processes.
• Experience writing system requirements or eliciting requirements from a customer.
• Experience with designing test equipment for bench and in-vehicle testing of electronic assemblies.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate experimental payload requirements to determine fit for integration onto a hypersonic test bed.
• Work across many teams and subsystems to define and implement collection and recording of experimental payload data
• Contribute to instrumentation and telemetry (data) system requirements development, design, testing, & operation for customer payloads
• Develop and support instrumentation and telemetry tests
• Make suggestions and recommendations for improvements, including changes to workflow
• Support Talon-A Payload Integration Lead
• Support technical customer reviews and ensure contract deliverables are on time and meet or exceed customer expectations
• Analyze flight data and generate reports for customers
• Be an effective and professional representative of the company
• Travel, as needed, to support the company
• Demonstrate honesty, responsibility, integrity and fulfillment of commitments

Skills

C/C++/C#

Python

Git

Oscilloscope

Benchtop power supplies

MS Office

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

0-2 years engineering experience or equivalent

Tools

NI LabVIEW

NI DAQmx

Doors/JAMA

Job description

Stratolaunch, LLC seeks a Level I–Sr Avionics or Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer to design, build, integrate, and test experimental payloads on the Talon-A hypersonic vehicles. You will collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team, program management, and customers to deliver data-rich payloads for challenging tests.

The role emphasizes instrumentation, telemetry, data acquisition, and requirements development, with travel as needed and a strong commitment to safety and security.