Electronic Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) Engineer - Level 3/4
About the role
The Electronic Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) Engineer - Level 3/4 will join a team of 2-4 EGSE Engineers interfacing with spacecraft subsystem engineers to obtain design requirements. Responsibilities include working with the Cognizant Engineer and Test Engineer of the flight hardware to obtain the Hardware Unit Under Test (UUT) Specification Requirements, developing requirements for testing of space vehicle components or UUT, working closely with the spacecraft UUT Design Engineer to ensure the component test equipment (CTE)/automated test equipment (ATE) system validates the circuit cards and/or electronics boxes under all test environments, generating review material and supporting design reviews for the test equipment in development, hardware design of component test equipment (CTE) and automated test equipment (ATE) to test space vehicle components, ensuring that the technical requirements, cost, and schedule for the CTE/ATE system development is achieved, end-to-end design, debug, test, and certification of CTE/ATE systems, documentation, development, and release of the CTE/ATE systems, generating Certification Test Procedures, and supporting the test and debug for flight and non-flight spacecraft electronic circuit card assemblies (CCA) and boxes.
Responsibilities
- Obtain Hardware Unit Under Test (UUT) Specification Requirements from the Cognizant Engineer and Test Engineer of the flight hardware.
- Develop requirements for testing of space vehicle components or UUT.
- Work closely with the spacecraft UUT Design Engineer to ensure the component test equipment (CTE)/automated test equipment (ATE) system will validate the circuit cards and/or electronics boxes under all test environments.
- Generate review material and support design reviews for the test equipment in development.
- Design and debug hardware test equipment (CTE) and automated test equipment (ATE) to test space vehicle components.
- Ensure that the technical requirements, cost, and schedule for the CTE/ATE system development is achieved.
- End-to-end design, debug, test, and certification of CTE/ATE systems.
- Document, develop, and release the CTE/ATE systems.
- Generate Certification Test Procedures.
- Support the test and debug for flight and non-flight spacecraft electronic circuit card assemblies (CCA) and boxes.
Requirements
- Electronic Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) Engineer - Level 3: 5 years of experience with Bachelors in STEM; 3 years with Masters; 1 year with PhD.
- Electronic Ground Support Equipment (EGSE) Engineer - Level 4: 8 years of experience with Bachelors in STEM; 6 years with Masters; 4 years with PhD.
Qualifications
- Ability and willingness to obtain a DoD Clearance.
- Experience documenting and developing cable drawings/wiring diagrams.
- Experience designing test hardware.
- Fundamental understanding of electrical circuit schematics.
Skills
- Experience designing hardware components for use in ATE/CTE.
- Experience using and programming Avionics/Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA).
- Experience using National LabVIEW (RT & FPGA) as the primary development tool for EGSE software design.
- Experience using Python / Perl / STOL / TestStand.
- Understanding of Power Converter Design.
- Previously developed high level drawings with VISIO.
- Experience in test requirements development.
- Experience in development and supporting QTP/ATP/EMI testing.
- Experienced in testing and troubleshooting of flight card and box.
- Proficiency in Circuit Analysis and circuit design.
- Proficiency in Schematic Analysis and Schematic Capture.
- Proficiency in Cable Design.
- Proficiency in EGSE Rack Design.
- Proficiency in EGSE Thermal analysis.
- Fundamental understanding of general and specialized test equipment to include Signal Generators, Logic Analyzers, Oscilloscopes, Power equipment, and Digital Multimeter.
Benefits
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Pay
Primary Level Salary Range: $98,400.00 - $147,600.00
Secondary Level Salary Range: $122,800.00 - $184,200.00
Schedule
Travel: Yes, 10% of the Time