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Avionics Test Engineer

Impulse Space
Redondo, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/31/2025

Description

As an Avionics Test Engineer, you will develop and run tests for all kinds of flight electrical devices, from individual circuit boards to entire vehicles. You will develop, build, and maintain test systems to support hardware from development to production. You will work directly with avionics hardware engineers, propulsion engineers, GNC engineers, production engineers, production technicians, and others. You will have the opportunity to contribute to all the stages of spacecraft development, from initial concepts to on-orbit operations.

Responsibilities

  • Own test systems from start to finish. Determine the best way to meet requirements, specify and purchase hardware, automate your hardware, fix problems, and own the results.
  • Test electrical devices to ensure they’re suitable for flight. Work with Responsible Engineers and designers to identify test cases, select or design the necessary signal conditioning circuits and measurement equipment, develop test sequences, identify problems, and help fix them.
  • Learn about, design, and build dedicated test setups for specialized devices like optical or motorized assemblies.
  • Provide feedback to design engineers to improve Impulse’s overall avionics ecosystem.
  • Support launch site activities by traveling with the spacecraft and conducting pre-launch tests.

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
  • 2 years of demonstrated experience testing electrical products
  • Experience troubleshooting electronics problems at the board and system level
  • Self-starter with a proactive drive to solve problems
  • Ability to synthesize low-level engineering documentation into test plans and procedures for a variety of audiences
  • Ability to communicate technical challenges, explain rationale and / or resolve concerns
  • Preferred Skills and Experience

  • Experience designing circuit boards
  • Experience using Altium Designer
  • 2 years of demonstrated experience working on a vehicle project of any kind (spacecraft, rocket, car, boat, plane, drone, etc)
  • Experience designing test stands and / or hardware racks
  • Experience with testing in a production environment
  • Experience working with NI hardware (cRIO, etc)
  • Experience safely operating hazardous systems (high voltage, high pressure, etc)
  • Experience with vibe tables, thermal chambers, or other aerospace test equipment
  • Familiarity with spacecraft systems and test campaigns
  • Demonstrated success in root cause and / or failure analysis
  • Additional Information :

    Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options , and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan .

    To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR here .

    Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

    Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers throughout LEO. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.

    Salary : $105,000

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