About the position
At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. In this position, you are responsible for the analysis, and implementation, execution of engineering test plans and procedures. The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of hardware and software knowledge with proficiencies in test equipment, test architectures, and automation. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to address company-wide hardware test needs. Engineers on this team must have working knowledge of overall schematics, operations, manufacturing, testing. Core day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with engineering teams to lead and develop test requirements, mapping requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures, implementing test plans and procedures, and logging and presenting results to key stakeholders. Additional responsibilities include lab and equipment management and guiding key equipment purchase decisions. Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create actionable items and system improvements.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and implement engineering test plans and procedures
- Collaborate with engineering teams to lead and develop test requirements
- Map requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures
- Implement test plans and procedures
- Log and present results to key stakeholders
- Manage lab and equipment
- Guide key equipment purchase decisions
- Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create actionable items and system improvements
Requirements
- A Bachelor of Science (BS) with 6+ years of experience, a Master of Science (MS) degree with 4 years of experience, or a higher degree with 2 years of experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering
- Demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of test systems
- Applied experience in test optimization for manufacturing environments
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated engineering intuition, critical thinking, and comfort with ambiguity
- Experience writing test plans, procedures and providing go/no-go judgment and rationale
- Experience in a production environment
Nice-to-haves
- Test architecture design and development including scripting, test executives, hardware, and measurement abstraction layers
- Programming or scripting experience (Python, MATLAB, C/C++, etc.)
- Proficiency with statistics and metrology
Benefits
- Company stock options
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement plans
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