Senior UAS Validation & Test Engineer

Minerva Defence; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Private health insurance

Pension plan

25 days leave

AI tooling access

Relocation support

Home office budget

Job summary

Minerva Defence, a rapidly growing defence technology company, seeks a senior validation engineer to own the end-to-end verification program. You will design and build bespoke test rigs, run diverse tests, and collaborate with design engineers to feed insights into the next design cycle.

You will lead experiments, analyze data, and document results to ensure traceability while developing new validation capabilities as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Degree in Mechanical Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience planning and executing product validation or verification testing.
• Knowledge of data analysis and Design of Experiments.
• Experience with instrumentation and data acquisition systems and producing technical test reports.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute validation plans that verify product performance, reliability and compliance against design requirements
• Design and build test rigs, fixtures and equipment to support verification and validation
• Plan and run Design of Experiments to evaluate performance and identify the key design drivers
• Execute functional, environmental, durability and reliability testing using accurate, repeatable methods
• Capture, analyse and interpret test data, producing clear reports and recommendations
• Investigate test failures through structured root cause analysis, working with design engineers on corrective actions
• Maintain validation procedures, test specifications and documentation so results stay traceable and repeatable
• Improve validation methods, equipment and laboratory capability over time

Skills

Test planning

Data analysis

Design of Experiments

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Minitab

MATLAB

Python

Job description

Minerva Defence, a rapidly growing defence technology company, seeks a senior validation engineer to own the end-to-end verification program. You will design and build bespoke test rigs, run diverse tests, and collaborate with design engineers to feed insights into the next design cycle.

You will lead experiments, analyze data, and document results to ensure traceability while developing new validation capabilities as the team scales.