Senior Environmental Test Engineer

• We are looking to add a Senior Environmental Test Engineer I to our team
• If you are excited about working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing critical test systems for leading-edge satellite, spacecraft, and aerospace communication systems, we would like to hear from you
• In this position, you will develop and implement test procedures for dynamic and thermal environmental testing of CesiumAstro components and systems
• You will be responsible for leveraging design for testability and continuous improvement to deliver space-grade electronics and structures without compromising personnel safety or product reliability
• A successful candidate for this role will demonstrate integrity, intellectual curiosity, empathy, technical capability, and a strong motivation to support environmental test
• Create hardware test procedures, ensure test readiness, unblock issues that arise during test campaigns, etc. in support of our environmental test resources
• Develop standard operating procedures for environmental test technicians
• Establish and increase the efficiency of environmental test processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to production
• Identify improvement opportunities and execute initiatives to maintain safe operations, ensure product quality, reduce lead time/labor hours, etc. through environmental test
• Identify, implement, and qualify environmental test equipment and processes in support of high reliability and throughput production
• Troubleshoot and identify ultimate root cause of issues in environmental test processes (hardware defects, test equipment anomalies, software problems, etc.), and implement permanent corrective actions
• Enable production autonomy understanding requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions
• Develop test equipment automation to improve efficiency of environmental test processes and maximize throughput

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision
• HSA and FSA
• Company stock options
• Life, disability and retirement plans- Experience in a hardware test environment for the Aerospace industry
• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 4 years related experience
• Experience in the aerospace industry
• Experience with test instrumentation (i.e. thermocouples, accelerometers, pressure transducers, etc.)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with peers
• Experience operating/maintaining thermal chambers, TVAC chambers, and/or vibration shakers
• Familiarity with RTCA DO-160G, MIL-STD-xxx, GEVS, SMC, etc
• Demonstrated ability to scale production rate capability
• Experience performing RTCA DO-160 aerospace environmental qualification campaigns for humidity, waterproofness, icing, sand and dust, salt fog, temperature and altitude, acceleration, operational shock and crash safety, vibration, and fluids susceptibility
• Demonstrated experience with hardware automation using Python, C++, or similar