Space Avionics Test Engineer | Python Automation

United States Digital Space LLC; Hawthorne (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare package

401(k) retirement plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring an Avionics Test Engineer (Starfall) to design test systems for space-grade avionics. The role focuses on rapid, iterative testing of flight computers, power units and boards, with emphasis on reliability and safety for crewed and uncrewed missions.

You will develop Python automation to interact with hardware and test equipment, collaborate across design and manufacturing teams, and pursue continual improvement through root-cause analysis and mitigations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or physics.
• 1+ years of hardware development or electronics test engineering via professional experience, internships, research and/or outside the classroom projects.
• 1+ years of python programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop test solutions for in-house developed avionics hardware products that will fly to space
• Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation systems
• Work closely with and consistently provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield
• Root-cause test failures to ensure issues are understood and develop and implement mitigations as part of a process of continuous improvement

Skills

Python programming

Hardware development

Electronics test engineering

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or physics

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is hiring an Avionics Test Engineer (Starfall) to design test systems for space-grade avionics. The role focuses on rapid, iterative testing of flight computers, power units and boards, with emphasis on reliability and safety for crewed and uncrewed missions.

You will develop Python automation to interact with hardware and test equipment, collaborate across design and manufacturing teams, and pursue continual improvement through root-cause analysis and mitigations.