Contract Electrical Test Engineer

Contract Electrical Test Engineer — Spacecraft I&T

?? Open hourly rate

?? 6-month contract

?? On-site in Littleton, CO

This one is with the same space and defence business in Colorado, this time on the test side. They need a senior electrical test engineer to prove their flight hardware actually works before it leaves the building. That includes hardware for some high-profile human-rated programmes.

They want someone who can walk up to a test bench, set it up, run it and work out what's gone wrong without needing a senior tech next to them. You'll be writing the procedures and scripts, building the test beds and then running the tests yourself.

?? What you'll be doing

• Writing the test procedures and scripts for component and spacecraft-level I&T, covering electrical checkouts, RF comms, optical, propulsion, GN&C and thermal
• Running the tests yourself, from safe-to-mate and power-on through to full functional testing
• Building test beds, including FlatSat and hardware-in-the-loop setups
• Working with the usual EGSE: power supplies, electronic loads, scopes, DMMs, VNAs, spectrum analysers and telemetry kit
• Reading schematics and wiring diagrams to understand exactly what you're testing
• Getting to the bottom of anomalies and failures through proper root cause corrective action
• Writing up each test so the team has a clear record of what happened

? What you'll need

• Around 5+ years in electrical test. A degree is preferred, but strong hands-on experience can count instead.
• Spacecraft-level test experience, both writing the tests and running them
• Unit and subsystem electrical testing, with the troubleshooting that comes with it
• Ground systems such as COSMOS/OpenC3 or InControl
• Linux and Python (or similar) scripting
• Happy to cover the odd overnight or weekend test when the schedule needs it
• US citizen, able to get a security clearance and happy to work on defence programmes
• On-site in Littleton, with up to 25% travel to Albuquerque and LA
• No relocation is covered, so you'd need to sort your own short-term accommodation if you're not local.

? Nice to have

• Environmental testing: vibration, shock and thermal chamber
• Epsilon3
• AS9100
• Cleanroom I&T experience
• Failure analysis tools like fishbone or 5-Why
• Open to converting to a permanent role after the contract

?? Interested?

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