Spaceflight Test Engineer: Build Automated Flight Hardware

Cosmic Frontier Labs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Reproductive healthcare

HSA/FSA

Life insurance

Disability insurance

One Medical

401(k)

Education benefits

Cell phone reimbursement

Wi-Fi reimbursement

Work-from-home stipend

Commuter benefits

Wellness programs

Job summary

Cosmic Frontier Labs in San Francisco is seeking a test engineer to validate hardware and software across telescope systems and to build the test infrastructure that accelerates iteration.

You will design and run campaigns, build fixtures, and develop data pipelines; success includes stand-up of automated workflow and end-to-end tests. This role offers the chance to help push spaceflight hardware to orbit within two years.

Qualifications

• Strong education background in Mechanical, Aerospace, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• Hands on experience designing and executing test campaigns, including environmental testing such as vibration and thermal vacuum.
• Experience building test fixtures, selecting instrumentation, and creating reliable data acquisition workflows.
• Proven ability to analyze failures, identify root cause, and drive design changes based on test results.

Responsibilities

• Design and run test campaigns across subsystems and integrated builds, from bench tests to vibe and TVAC
• Build fixtures, write automation, and create the instrumentation and data pipelines that make results trustworthy
• Hunt edge cases early and turn failures into design changes, not paperwork

Skills

Test campaign design

Environmental testing

Data acquisition

Root cause analysis

Python

Education

Mechanical/Electrical/Aerospace Engineering degree

Tools

LabVIEW

MATLAB

Job description

Cosmic Frontier Labs in San Francisco is seeking a test engineer to validate hardware and software across telescope systems and to build the test infrastructure that accelerates iteration.

You will design and run campaigns, build fixtures, and develop data pipelines; success includes stand-up of automated workflow and end-to-end tests. This role offers the chance to help push spaceflight hardware to orbit within two years.