Senior Flight Validation & HIL Engineer

Poseidon Aerospace; Berkeley (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Early-stage equity

Relocation support

Health benefits

6% retirement matching

Flexible PTO

Free lunches and snacks

Job summary

Poseidon Aerospace in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Test and Validation Engineer to own our ground-to-flight testing strategy. You will define hardware-in-the-loop architectures, validation frameworks, and the system test roadmap, leading engineers and technicians who execute it.

The role focuses on building tests for flight software, vehicle electromechanical subsystems, and real-time simulation, with wide scope across bench, on-aircraft, and flight tests, and will be central

Qualifications

• 5+ years testing complex electromechanical or embedded systems on aircraft, spacecraft, automotive, or comparable vehicles.
• Architected and brought up a hardware-in-the-loop or system test capability from scratch.
• Led the test strategy for a hardware and software program through to fielded operation.
• Planned environmental, durability, or reliability test campaigns that changed engineering decisions.
• Strong software skills in Python and C or C++.
• Strong electrical troubleshooting skills across embedded computers, actuation, power, and communications.
• Led test engineers or technicians.

Responsibilities

• Own the system test roadmap across component level, hardware-in-the-loop, ground test, and flight test.
• Architect and bring up hardware-in-the-loop benches with flight computers, actuators, sensors, and power hardware in the loop.
• Own the simulation infrastructure, including software-in-the-loop, real-time simulation, and integration of models from GNC and flight sciences.
• Define the validator framework and the criteria a software or hardware release must meet before it goes on the aircraft.
• Design fault injection and rapid fault-finding campaigns driven by vehicle failure mode analysis.
• Work with flight software to define the test-mode features needed in flight code.
• Turn mission profiles into qualification and life-test plans, including stress levels and test duration.
• Develop new ways to reproduce flight loads and environments on the ground, and correlate test conditions to flight data.
• Develop health monitoring and anomaly detection from vehicle telemetry for use in test and on the aircraft.
• Lead environmental and durability test campaigns, including outside test labs.
• Present test evidence at flight readiness reviews and support certification evidence.
• Lead root cause investigations on faults found in test.
• Lead and mentor test engineers and technicians.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Embedded systems testing

Team leadership

Test strategy

Environmental testing

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace, or computer engineering

Tools

Speedgoat

dSPACE

NI

Job description

Poseidon Aerospace in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Test and Validation Engineer to own our ground-to-flight testing strategy. You will define hardware-in-the-loop architectures, validation frameworks, and the system test roadmap, leading engineers and technicians who execute it.

The role focuses on building tests for flight software, vehicle electromechanical subsystems, and real-time simulation, with wide scope across bench, on-aircraft, and flight tests, and will be central