Principal Environmental Test Engineer: Vibration Testing

RTX; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

Flexible work schedules

Employee assistance program

Parental leave

Paid time off

Holidays

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Principal Environmental Test Engineer to join the Environmental Test organization in Tucson, AZ. This onsite role requires leading and performing vibration and structural tests, developing test plans, and coordinating with internal customers and IP teams to meet qualification criteria.

You will design fixtures, analyze data in real time and post-test, and implement best practices to ensure scheduling and budget alignment.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• 5 years of experience working in a product development lab with vibration shaker systems and/or with instrumentation (accelerometers, thermocouples, strain gauges, load cells, etc…) and data acquisition systems (Dewetron, DeweSoft, LabVIEW, Agilent/Keysight, Benchlink, Somat, etc…).

Responsibilities

• Consult and provide testing guidance to internal program customers and verify their proposed testing will meet the intended requirements.
• Write test plans and procedures that meet the requirements and safety of testing requested by internal program customers as well as review plans and procedures written by others. Also create schedules and budgets for all testing.
• Oversee and personally conduct environmental testing to validate models for the purposes of new product qualification, production acceptance, flight test clearance, engineering evaluations, and failure investigations.
• Implement engineering best practices to ensure testing is performed accurately, on schedule, and within allowed budget.
• Analyze test data real time and posttest to validate requirements have been met in accordance with requirements.
• Communicate status of ongoing testing efforts with ET leadership and internal program customers.
• Design, model, and analyze vibration and structural test fixtures using CREO Parametric and Ansys Workbench.

Skills

Vibration testing

Data acquisition

Test planning

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

CREO Parametric

Ansys Workbench

Dewetron

DeweSoft

LabVIEW

Job description

RTX is seeking a Principal Environmental Test Engineer to join the Environmental Test organization in Tucson, AZ. This onsite role requires leading and performing vibration and structural tests, developing test plans, and coordinating with internal customers and IP teams to meet qualification criteria.

You will design fixtures, analyze data in real time and post-test, and implement best practices to ensure scheduling and budget alignment.