Senior Spacecraft Test Engineer — Flight Readiness Lead

Telemetry Today LLC; Bothell (WA); Presencial; USD 150 000 - 200 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Portal Space Systems seeks a Senior Vehicle Test Engineer to own the vehicle-level verification framework from early design through flight readiness. You will lead SME teams to define test objectives, artifacts, and procedures across functional areas, ensuring traceability and readiness for vehicle integration.

Responsibilities include developing test flows, coordinating across engineering disciplines, and leading Readiness Reviews.

Qualificações

• Bachelor’s degree in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering (or equivalent).
• 5+ years of spacecraft integration or test experience.

Responsabilidades

• Develop and maintain the integrated vehicle verification and test strategy from early design through flight readiness.
• Own and maintain the vehicle verification matrix and Verification Control Document with Systems Engineering and requirement owners.
• Define required verification artifacts for each requirement and ensure responsible domain produces complete evidence.
• Plan all vehicle-level functional, environmental, interface, deployment, propulsion, mass-properties, end-to-end, and mission-readiness testing.
• Develop integrated test flows, schedules, configurations, dependencies, resource plans, and entry/exit criteria.
• Lead subject-matter experts in defining test objectives, success criteria, limits, instrumentation, data products, and procedure steps.
• Author integrated test procedures, control procedure execution, and maintain as-run procedures.
• Lead Test Readiness Reviews, test-conductor activities, console organization, configuration verification, and anomaly-response coordination.
• Define facility, instrumentation, tooling, lifting, handling, data-system, and GSE requirements early to support vehicle test.
• Ensure GSE architecture, design, fabrication, software, checkout, and delivery meet vehicle-test needs.
• Coordinate test execution across Systems Engineering, Integration and Test, avionics, flight software, GNC, power, propulsion, thermal, structures, facilities, quality, and safety.
• Establish custody, naming, configuration, storage, and traceability for data, logs, and verification evidence.
• Produce integrated test reports, verification-completion status, open-anomaly assessments, retest recommendations, and flight-readiness inputs.

Conhecimentos

Test planning

Verification

GSE knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, systems engineering, or related field

Ferramentas

Telemetry systems

Test instrumentation

GSE tooling

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Portal Space Systems seeks a Senior Vehicle Test Engineer to own the vehicle-level verification framework from early design through flight readiness. You will lead SME teams to define test objectives, artifacts, and procedures across functional areas, ensuring traceability and readiness for vehicle integration.

Responsibilities include developing test flows, coordinating across engineering disciplines, and leading Readiness Reviews.