Electrical Test Engineer (Starshield)
SpaceX · Hawthorne, CA · Yesterday
On-siteQuality Assurance$105k–$123k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Select commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and/or design custom PCBAs to measure signals, apply flight-like loads, and power units under test
- Create test solutions from the ground up and be the last line of defense testing and screening out all electronic hardware for our spacecraft
- Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation systems
- Work closely with and consistently provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive innovation in design and infrastructure to increase product reliability and yield
- Root-cause test anomalies and failures during various states of testing and development to ensure they are understood and implement mitigations
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or an engineering discipline with an emphasis in electrical engineering and electronics
- 1+ years of experience with electronic hardware development or software development (academic projects, internships, and traditional professional experience all qualify)
- 1+ years of programming experience using Python, MATLAB, or Embedded C/C++
Preferred Skills And Experience
- Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans
- Experience developing object-oriented software
- Experience designing and troubleshooting PCBAs
- Experience with test equipment such as oscilloscopes, DMMs, DAQs and measurement techniques to verify and validate product electronic requirements
- Experience with RF test equipment including spectrum analyzers, vector network analyzers, and signal generators
- Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
- Understanding of metrology, sources of measurement error, and uncertainty analysis
- Understanding and experience in environmental testing such as HALT, HASS, vibration, shock, thermal, TVAC, and EMI/EMC
Pay Range
Electrical Test Engineer/Level I: $105,000.00 - $122,500.00/per year
Electrical Test Engineer/Level II: $120,000.00 - $150,000.00/per year