RF Lab Test Engineer – Automation & Validation (Valencia)

ICEYE; Valencia; On-site; VES 49,554,000 - 74,331,000; Full time

Job summary

ICEYE is seeking a Lab Test Engineer to plan, run, automate and document tests across simulation, signal capture and playback in a dedicated experimentation lab in Valencia. You'll help ensure repeatable, traceable results as ICEYE builds its space-based RF constellation and validates end-to-end test campaigns.

You will set up hardware, maintain calibration, automate procedures, manage test data and produce concise reports, working closely with the Laboratory Lead and Test Architect to deliver

Qualifications

• Hands-on test experience in electronics/RF/space hardware lab: test setups, procedures, execution and reporting.
• Comfort with lab instruments (oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, signal generators, power supplies) and basic RF practice (connectors, attenuators, cable loss).
• Scripting for test automation and data analysis, typically Python.
• An organised and rigorous way of working: you write things down, version them, and can reproduce last month’s result.
• Clear written English.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run tests across all three lab missions: end-to-end simulation runs, emitter capture sessions, playback and channel simulator campaigns, flatsat and receiver tests, and algorithm validation.
• Write procedures and automate them: turn manual setups into scripted, repeatable test sequences, and add them to regression so each software or firmware build is checked.
• Set up and maintain the lab: instruments, SDRs, cabling, fixtures, the screened enclosure and emitter bays, network and compute. Track calibration, configuration and inventory so every result records what produced it.
• Manage test data: keep recordings, run outputs and metadata organised, searchable and backed up, with the provenance to reproduce a result.
• Analyse and report: compare results to expectations and to previous runs, flag regressions and anomalies, write concise test reports, and log issues with the evidence needed to fix them.
• Support campaigns in the field and in the air, customer and partner demonstrations, and the reproduction of on-orbit anomalies on the ground.
• Run the lab safely: RF safety, ESD, equipment handling, access control and the handling rules for controlled material.

Skills

Hands-on testing

Lab instruments

Python scripting

Rigorous process

English proficiency

Tools

SDR experience

RF capture

Signal analysis

Test automation frameworks

CI pipelines

SCPI/VISA

Job description

ICEYE is seeking a Lab Test Engineer to plan, run, automate and document tests across simulation, signal capture and playback in a dedicated experimentation lab in Valencia. You'll help ensure repeatable, traceable results as ICEYE builds its space-based RF constellation and validates end-to-end test campaigns.

You will set up hardware, maintain calibration, automate procedures, manage test data and produce concise reports, working closely with the Laboratory Lead and Test Architect to deliver