Senior Test Systems Engineer - Space Robotics & NASA-Grade

Lunar Outpost Oceania; Golden (CO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Paid time off

401(k) match

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Lunar Outpost seeks a Senior Test Systems Engineer to advance the Pegasus LTV program and NASA collaboration from our Colorado team. You will develop test requirements, plan campaigns, lead cross-disciplinary tests, and ensure qualification at component through vehicle levels, while coordinating with IPTs and schedules.

You bring 4–8 years of NASA test experience, strong documentation, and excellent communication, with a US person authorized to work in the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• 4–8 years of experience in developing and executing test and qualification campaigns for NASA Class A and/or human-rated vehicles.
• Experience leading and executing engineering test efforts to support requirement verification and validation.
• Familiarity with NASA AI&T standards (e.g., SMC-S-016, NASA-STD-8739).
• Understanding NASA verification and validation processes.
• Strong test documentation writing skills (test plans, procedures, reports).
• Knowledge of systems engineering processes and best practices.
• MS Office skills, especially Excel and Project.
• Self-motivated, focused, and driven to meet deadlines.
• Excellent organization and time management.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• U.S. Person.

Responsibilities

• Develop test requirements and plans in coordination with IPTs
• Support IPT generation of test reports
• Plan and execute component, subassembly, and subsystem qualification campaigns
• Lead efforts to design, build, and test dedicated vehicle test platforms and prototypes
• Lead development of qualification and test campaign schedules in accordance with the AI&T Plan and execute campaigns on schedule to drive program progress
• Write test procedures and processes to support qualification at the component, subsystem, and vehicle level
• Provide expert inputs to program schedules and budgets as well as regular status of campaign execution

Skills

Test planning

Test execution

Documentation

Systems engineering

MS Excel

MS Project

Written & verbal communication

Time management

Self-motivated

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Aerospace, Electrical, Mechanical Engineering or related discipline

Tools

JIRA/Confluence

JAMA

Python scripting

Job description

Lunar Outpost seeks a Senior Test Systems Engineer to advance the Pegasus LTV program and NASA collaboration from our Colorado team. You will develop test requirements, plan campaigns, lead cross-disciplinary tests, and ensure qualification at component through vehicle levels, while coordinating with IPTs and schedules.

You bring 4–8 years of NASA test experience, strong documentation, and excellent communication, with a US person authorized to work in the United States.