Senior Electrical Test Engineer – Space AI Satellites

United States Digital Space LLC; Bastrop (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Sr. Electrical Test Engineer for AI satellites (Starmind). You will design and develop automated test solutions for space-grade hardware, select components, and write Python automation to interface with test units and equipment.

Collaborate with design and manufacturing engineers to improve reliability and yield, analyze signals, perform HALT/HASS environmental tests, and help establish flight-like test coverage for orbital AI compute systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline.
• 5+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering.
• Experience writing automation software in Python.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automated test solutions for complex, space grade hardware
• Select commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and/or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test
• Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, field data, and production documentation systems
• Work closely with and consistently provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield
• Challenge assumptions and work to find simple solutions to complex problems

Skills

Python

C/C++

Electronics test engineering

Circuit analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or other engineering discipline

Tools

Oscilloscope

Multimeter

Electronic load

Spectrum analyzer

Network analyzer

Vector signal generator

Source measurement unit

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is seeking a Sr. Electrical Test Engineer for AI satellites (Starmind). You will design and develop automated test solutions for space-grade hardware, select components, and write Python automation to interface with test units and equipment.

Collaborate with design and manufacturing engineers to improve reliability and yield, analyze signals, perform HALT/HASS environmental tests, and help establish flight-like test coverage for orbital AI compute systems.