Test Software & Automation Engineer, EO/IR Space Payloads

General Atomics; Acton (MA); On-site; USD 106,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) designs and manufactures first-of-a-kind electromagnetic and electric power generation systems.

GA-EMS' expanding portfolio of specialized products and integrated system solutions support critical fleet, space systems and satellites, missile defense, power and energy, and process and monitoring applications for defense, industrial, and commercial customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, master's or PhD in engineering or a related field with progressive engineering experience.
• Strong Python software development experience in production or engineering environments.
• Experience architecting and maintaining a nontrivial software system.
• Experience interfacing software with hardware, embedded systems, or lab equipment.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, modular design, configuration management, and automated testing.
• Strong debugging skills across software, communications, OS, and hardware interfaces.
• Ability to mentor less experienced software developers and review their technical work.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical lead for payload test software, test automation, and software-based EGSE.
• Architect reusable test software frameworks supporting payload integration, functional test, characterization, qualification, acceptance, and production.
• Lead development of hardware abstraction layers and interfaces to laboratory equipment, payload electronics, sensors, motion system, optical equipment, and other GSE.
• Develop operator-facing applications for configuration, commanding, telemetry visualization, test execution, and data review.
• Define software architectures supporting repeatable, automated, configuration-controlled test execution.
• Develop and maintain data acquisition, data processing, image-analysis, visualization, and database infrastructure.
• Establish software development practices including source control, code review, automated testing, CI/CD, release management, and deployment.
• Support automated verification and regression testing of flight and test software.
• Lead troubleshooting of software/hardware integration issues in laboratory environments.
• Reduce operator-dependent activities through automation, validation, interlocks, and user-interface design.
• Mentor junior software personnel and provide technical direction, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Collaborate with system and test engineers to translate test requirements into maintainable software capabilities.
• Develop common software capabilities reusable across multiple programs and test stations.

Skills

Python

Software architecture

Hardware interfacing

Mentoring

DoD security clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in engineering

Tools

CI/CD

Containers

Linux

OpenCV

Job description

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) designs and manufactures first-of-a-kind electromagnetic and electric power generation systems.

GA-EMS' expanding portfolio of specialized products and integrated system solutions support critical fleet, space systems and satellites, missile defense, power and energy, and process and monitoring applications for defense, industrial, and commercial customers worldwide.