Spacecraft Test & Automation Engineer

Astro Digital; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems for earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, and more. The Spacecraft Test team will write test plans, automate tests, and analyze data to ensure mission success from subsystem delivery to launch.

You will collaborate with customers, design and system engineers, and project managers, writing procedures, collecting test data, and presenting results.

Qualifications

• 2 years minimum test experience with a complex system.
• B.S. or M.S. in engineering (aerospace, mechanical, electrical, software), math, physics, or related field
• Ability to understand and follow system documentation
• Desire to solve problems collaboratively
• Strong organizational skills
• Interest working with a first-rate, collegial team
• Experience with Linux and test automation
• Experience with hardware test on highly complex and reliable systems.

Responsibilities

• Write system test plans
• Perform and automate tests and test data analysis for spacecraft
• Analyze and present feedback on both the process and results to larger teams
• Ensure test plans and procedures meet system requirements and evolving mission characteristics
• Troubleshoot anomalous test results, identify, and help track defects
• Apply diligence to promote production efficiency, mission objectives, and above all, hardware, and personnel safety
• Continually seek out ways to improve

Skills

Test engineering

Automation

Linux

Team collaboration

Education

B.S./M.S. in engineering

Tools

Multimeters

Oscilloscopes

Spectrum Analyzers

Power Meters

Job description

Astro Digital designs, builds, and operates a diverse range of small satellite systems for earth observation, communications, in-orbit demonstrations, and more. The Spacecraft Test team will write test plans, automate tests, and analyze data to ensure mission success from subsystem delivery to launch.

You will collaborate with customers, design and system engineers, and project managers, writing procedures, collecting test data, and presenting results.