Senior Electrical Test Engineer - Satellite Hardware

Socket.dev; Washington; On-site; USD 121,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Paid parental leave

Stock options

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Electrical Test Engineer III to join the AI&T team on the Terawave program in Washington. You will own electrical verification campaigns end-to-end—from test readiness and execution to formal report closeout—and mentor junior engineers along the way.

You will translate bench test methods into repeatable procedures for production, validate data bus interfaces (CAN, SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553, RS-422), and drive root-cause analysis to improve test reliability

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or closely related field.
• 5+ years of experience in electrical test, system integration and test, or hardware verification in aerospace, defense, or high-reliability electronics.
• Experience leading or owning electrical test campaigns end-to-end: procedure development, execution, anomaly disposition, and formal test reporting.
• Proficiency with electrical test equipment: oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, data acquisition systems, and data bus analyzers.
• Experience with nonconformance management, anomaly disposition, and corrective action processes.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.

Responsibilities

• Execute and lead electrical interface checks, continuity/isolation tests, and power bus verification campaigns; manage execution from test readiness through formal report closeout.
• Perform timing and latency characterization across all hardware interfaces; verify data bus operation: CAN, SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553, RS-422, and discrete I/O.
• Conduct fault injection tests; capture results against defined pass/fail criteria and drive anomaly disposition through closure.
• Own and maintain electrical test procedures from development through formal review, release, and post-test red-line incorporation.
• Author formal test reports; support root cause analysis for test failures and escaped defects.
• Serve as production liaison: develop training materials and deliver knowledge transfer sessions to production test engineers covering electrical verification techniques and common failure modes.
• Identify DFT improvements and provide actionable feedback to design and manufacturing engineering.
• Mentor Electrical Test Engineer I and II team members; review their procedures and test reports.
• Coordinate with subsystem engineers on test objectives, success criteria, and design-for-test requirements.
• Support formal acceptance test planning and customer witness test preparation.

Skills

End-to-end test campaigns

Test equipment proficiency

Root cause analysis

Mentoring junior engineers

Education

Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering or Systems Engineering

Tools

Oscilloscopes

DMMs

Power supplies

Data acquisition systems

Data bus analyzers

Python/LabVIEW (test automation)

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an experienced Electrical Test Engineer III to join the AI&T team on the Terawave program in Washington. You will own electrical verification campaigns end-to-end—from test readiness and execution to formal report closeout—and mentor junior engineers along the way.

You will translate bench test methods into repeatable procedures for production, validate data bus interfaces (CAN, SpaceWire, MIL-STD-1553, RS-422), and drive root-cause analysis to improve test reliability