Electrical Test Engineer

About the Company

We are a stealth-mode Aerospace & Defense startup headquartered in Gardena, CA. Our founding team hails from SpaceX, Anduril, and Lockheed Martin, and we are backed by Joint Staff-level military leadership and top-tier Silicon Valley firms. Our mission is urgent: to develop and deploy life-saving missile defense systems that can be fielded globally, today.

Responsibilities

• Own the factory test automation specification and design for multiple electronic assemblies
• Lead the design effort for PCBA bed of nails test fixtures, test racks, cable test infrastructure, and test automation software
• Act as owner of flight test and manufacturing ground support equipment
• Develop and maintain manufacturing test stations for PCBA and Avionic subassemblies
• Troubleshoot test station failures and debug non-conformances through test stages and drive root cause analysis
• Work with software engineers to develop test software and oversee test software deployment and provisioning
• Prepare detailed test reports and support formal verification of the system

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM field or similar discipline
• Ability to read and interpret PCBA schematics for troubleshooting hardware
• Experience developing and documenting operating procedures and guides
• Experience troubleshooting hardware/software issues and identifying root causes
• Experience with measurement hardware and test equipment (DMMs, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, DAQ, etc.)
• Experience programming functional tests of hardware
• Experience managing multiple Linux systems in a test environment
• Experience with DVCS such as git
• Must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee to comply with ITAR

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient in scripting languages such as Python
• Experience managing a test environment code base
• Experience supporting a high volume and high reliability production line
• Experience managing teams of test technicians operating test equipment