Senior Test & Validation Engineer, Flight Systems

Poseidon Aerospace; Alameda (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Employee Health Benefit Plans

6% Retirement matching

Flexible PTO

Free lunches, snacks, and a stocked fr

AI tools and subscriptions

Job summary

Poseidon Aerospace in the San Francisco Bay Area is seeking a Senior Test and Validation Engineer to own hardware-in-the-loop, simulation architecture, validator framework, and the system test roadmap across bench, ground, and flight environments.

You will build many components, lead engineers and technicians, and collaborate with flight software to define test modes and qualification plans, enabling safe, rapid flight testing of autonomous cargo aircraft.

Qualifications

• 5+ years testing complex electromechanical or embedded systems on aircraft or similar platforms.
• Architected hardware-in-the-loop or system test capability from scratch.
• Led test strategy for hardware/software programs to fielded operation.
• Strong Python and C/C++ software skills.
• Strong electrical troubleshooting across embedded computers, actuators, power, and comms.
• Led test engineers or technicians.

Responsibilities

• Own the system test roadmap and the strategy for what is tested at component level, in hardware-in-the-loop, in ground test, and in 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 the 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++

Electrical troubleshooting

Leadership

Education

BS 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 hardware-in-the-loop, simulation architecture, validator framework, and the system test roadmap across bench, ground, and flight environments.

You will build many components, lead engineers and technicians, and collaborate with flight software to define test modes and qualification plans, enabling safe, rapid flight testing of autonomous cargo aircraft.