Senior Test Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Own the planning and execution of component, subsystem, and system-level test campaigns supporting deployment and separation mechanism development
• Lead complex test campaigns to demonstrate system performance under representative environments
• Develop test plans, procedures, success criteria, and test readiness documentation for mechanical development and validation activities
• Cook up closely with external test facilities and vendors to define test requirements, facility interfaces, schedules, constraints, and execution plans
• Design and develop test fixtures, adapters, support equipment, and other GSE required to safely and effectively execute testing
• Partner with structures, mechanisms, dynamics, and manufacturing engineers to ensure test articles, fixtures, and instrumentation support key technical objectives
• Define instrumentation and data collection needs in collaboration with internal and external partners to ensure test results can validate performance and inform model correlation
• Drive test campaign logistics including hardware readiness, facility integration, procedural development, configuration tracking, and execution coordination
• Lead troubleshooting and issue resolution during test preparation and execution, and drive rapid turnaround on test learnings into follow-on hardware or procedures
• Author test reports and communicate results, risks, and recommended next steps in design reviews and cross-functional program forums

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent technical experience
• Typically 5+ years of professional experience in development testing, qualification testing, or mechanical system test engineering for aerospace, defense, or similarly demanding applications
• Experience developing and executing component and subsystem-level test campaigns for mechanical hardware
• Experience writing test plans, procedures, test readiness documentation, and post-test reports
• Strong understanding of mechanical systems, including structures, mechanisms, interfaces, and hardware integration
• Experience coordinating with external test facilities, vendors, or suppliers to execute complex test programs
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with design, analysis, manufacturing, and program teams to drive tests from concept through execution
• Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment

Desired Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• Experience owning complex mechanism, deployment, or separation system test campaigns from early development through integrated demonstration
• Experience testing hardware in high-dynamic, high-shock, vibration, or transient mechanical environments
• Experience supporting correlation of test results to loads, structural dynamics, or multibody dynamics models
• Experience developing and executing tests for qualified flight hardware
• Experience with instrumentation planning, sensor selection, data acquisition coordination, and extraction of design-relevant test data
• Experience supporting rapid hardware iteration and test-driven development in a hardware-rich environment
• Experience working with external government, commercial, or specialized test facilities
• Experience using CAD tools to design test fixtures, support equipment, or integration hardware