HITL Engineer
for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to include sections only if posting has real specific content. The posting includes: description about company, role description, responsibilities, qualifications, compensation and benefits (pay and benefits). Also maybe "Nice to Have" could be Skills? The instructions: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We need to decide which sections to include based on content.
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- About the role: The description after "The Role As a Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) Testbed Engineer..." That's prose. So we can have About the role
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About the role
The Role As a Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) Testbed Engineer, you’ll own designing, implementing, and maintaining critical test assets integrating flight-like hardware and high-fidelity simulation. You will support critical tests validating system design, verifying flight and ground software, and operations related in active missions in space. Your attention to detail and preparation will ensure that the flatsat testbed is ready for tasks that could directly impact mission success. Knowing how to scale these testbeds using automation and flexible configuration will enable teams to have accurate results and parity with flight vehicles with various mission objectives. If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply! Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists and turns are encouraged!
Responsibilities
- Work with responsible engineers and software engineers to design a high-fidelity vehicle testbed ensuring high technical rigor and associated documentation.
- Operate the HITL testbed in support of system validation, verification, and investigations, including on-orbit operations.
- Receive, integrate, and test flight representative hardware into HITL testbeds.
- Collaborate with design and systems engineers to create and build hardware simulation equipment.
- Own, maintain, and document HITL table configuration and build out, including the supporting GSE racks.
- Create and release harness drawings for required ground support and test equipment.
- Investigate and troubleshoot testbed issues and drive further actions to improve future designs.
- Design, maintain, and operate HITL racks deployed to customers for integration.
- Support training events for mission operators for constellation management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, computer, or other engineering discipline
- 2+ years of experience in an integration/test/automation engineering role (includes internships and design/build/compete extracurricular projects)
- Hands-on experience with HITL or Flatsat software verification testbeds.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining test racks and harnessing.
- Experience testing and troubleshooting integrated avionics systems and their related components.
- Hands-on experience using electrical test equipment (PSU, Oscilloscope, DMM, etc.) and with ESD sensitive equipment.
- Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills
Skills
- Proficient in Python and/or Rust
- Experience with Linux systems
- Experience managing contractual interfaces (e.g. customer, launch vehicle)
- Experience with containerized solutions like Docker.
- Desire to continually raise the bar of “good enough” and innovate novel solutions for scaling HITL.
Pay
Base salary range for this role is $100,000 - $140,000 + equity in the company. Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level.
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks.
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- Benefits: The posting mentions "Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks". So we have benefits content. Also maybe "Base salary range ..." is Pay. So we need Pay section: base salary range $100,000 - $140,000 + equity. Also mention salary based on factors. So we can have
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thenwith that. - Schedule: Not mentioned. So we should not include Schedule section. - Requirements: Might be similar to Qualifications? The instruction says we can use Requirements heading. But we already have Qualifications. Could combine? The instruction says prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We have About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. That's six sections. Could we merge Skills into Qualifications? But they said we can use Skills heading. It's okay to have Skills separate. However we need to avoid filler. The Nice to Have list is substantive. So include Skills. We must not repeat job title as heading. Not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate: Export Compliance, Equal Opportunity, etc. Also remove application instructions like "If you don’t meet 100%..." maybe that's not boilerplate but it's encouragement; could be considered part of posting but not a section. It's prose; we could include it in About the role or maybe separate? It's not a heading. We'll keep it as part of About the role paragraph maybe. We need to preserve ALL substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from responsibilities, qualifications, nice to have, compensation, benefits. We must not include duplicated lines. Ensure we capture each bullet. Let's extract sections. First, company description paragraph at start: "K2 is building the largest and highest-power satellites ever flown..." That's company overview. Could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we don't have a heading for company overview. Could include in About the role paragraph as context. The instruction: "About the role" heading for section headings. So we can put the role description there, but we could also include company overview in that paragraph. It's okay. Now extract The Role paragraph: "The Role As a Hardware-In-The-Loop (HITL) Testbed Engineer, you’ll own designing, implementing, and maintaining critical test assets integrating flight-like hardware and high-fidelity simulation. You will support critical tests validating system design, verifying flight and ground software, and operations related in active missions in space. Your attention to detail and preparation will ensure that the flatsat testbed is ready for tasks that could directly impact mission success. Knowing how to scale these testbeds using automation and flexible configuration will enable teams to have accurate results and parity with flight vehicles with various mission objectives." We'll put that in
. Now Responsibilities bullet list: - Work with responsible engineers and software engineers to design a high-fidelity vehicle testbed ensuring high technical rigor and associated documentation. - Operate the HITL testbed in support of system validation, verification, and investigations, including on-orbit operations. - Receive, integrate, and test flight representative hardware into HITL testbeds. - Collaborate with design and systems engineers to create and build hardware simulation equipment. - Own, maintain, and document HITL table configuration and build out, including the supporting GSE racks. - Create and release harness drawings for required ground support and test equipment. - Investigate and troubleshoot testbed issues and drive further actions to improve future designs. - Design, maintain, and operate HITL racks deployed to customers for integration. - Support training events for mission operators for constellation management. Now Qualifications (required): - Bachelor’s degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, computer, or other engineering discipline - 2+ years of experience in an integration/test/automation engineering role (includes internships and design/build/compete extracurricular projects) - Hands-on experience with HITL or Flatsat software verification testbeds. - Experience designing, building, and maintaining test racks and harnessing. - Experience testing and troubleshooting integrated avionics systems and their related components. - Hands-on experience using electrical test equipment (PSU, Oscilloscope, DMM, etc.) and with ESD sensitive equipment. - Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills Now Skills (Nice to Have): - Proficient in Python and/or Rust - Experience with Linux systems - Experience managing contractual interfaces (e.g. customer, launch vehicle) - Experience with containerized solutions like Docker. - Desire to continually raise the bar of “good enough” and innovate novel solutions for scaling HITL. Now Compensation And Benefits: - Base salary range for this role is $100,000 - $140,000 + equity in the company - Salary will be based on several factors including, but not limited to: knowledge and skills, education, and experience level - Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision coverage, life insurance, paid parental leave, and many other perks Also there is line: "If you don’t meet 100% of the preferred skills and experience, we encourage you to still apply!" That's encouragement; we could include in About the role paragraph or maybe separate but not a heading. We'll add to About the role paragraph after the description. Also there is "Building a spacecraft unlike any other requires a team unlike any other and non-traditional career twists and turns are encouraged!" That's also encouragement. We'll include. Now we need to output only HTML fragment. Use