Senior Space Test Engineer – Deployable Mechanisms

Telemetry Today LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond Reach Labs is seeking a Senior Development Test Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of test infrastructure for deployable space hardware. You will own test strategy from subassembly tests to full-scale deployment, architect DAQ systems, and define procedures to qualify flight hardware.

You will mentor engineers, guide campaigns across development, acceptance, and qualification tests, and help mature test capability as we scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience designing, fabricating, or operating test hardware, DAQ systems, or test rigs.
• Direct experience testing spaceflight hardware through development, acceptance, and qualification testing.
• Experience leading test campaigns end to end, including authoring acceptance and qualification test documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of instrumentation and data acquisition fundamentals (sensors, signal conditioning, sampling).
• Demonstrated ability to take technical ownership and lead in small teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, fabrication, and instrumentation of test rigs and stands for deployable mechanisms, structural test articles, and motor/actuator hardware.
• Architect data acquisition (DAQ) systems, including sensor selection, signal conditioning, and instrumentation layout, and set standards the team builds to.
• Produce and review fabrication drawings, wiring schematics, and instrumentation lists for test equipment.
• Drive streamlining and automation of testing for acceptance testing and long-term production, and shape BRL's longer-term test capability roadmap.
• Lead test systems and campaigns across development, acceptance, and qualification testing, from full-scale deployment tests down to subassembly-level characterization, including serving as test director and leading test readiness reviews.
• Stay hands-on with test campaigns, including test article integration, activation, execution, and troubleshooting, while guiding other engineers and technicians through them.
• Reduce and review test data, and lead anomaly investigations and root cause analysis with design engineers through closure.
• Own the outcome, not just the execution: synthesize test results and performance trends across campaigns into concrete recommendations back to design and manufacturing to mature the hardware.

Skills

Test design

DAQ systems

Instrumentation

Leadership

Spaceflight testing

Data analysis

Test campaigns

Qualification testing

Education

Bachelors in Mechanical/Aerospace/Electrical engineering or related field

Tools

Instrumentation equipment

Wiring schematics

Test rigs & stands

Job description

Beyond Reach Labs is seeking a Senior Development Test Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of test infrastructure for deployable space hardware. You will own test strategy from subassembly tests to full-scale deployment, architect DAQ systems, and define procedures to qualify flight hardware.

You will mentor engineers, guide campaigns across development, acceptance, and qualification tests, and help mature test capability as we scale.