Avionics Integration & Test Engineer, HASS

Key Responsibilities

• Own flight hardware through highly accelerated thermal screening procedures and serve as primary contact for any associated issues or stoppages.
• Evaluate non-conforming electrical hardware to determine root cause failure modes and propose design improvements.
• Troubleshoot test software and modify the codebase to adjust test bounds, implement fixes, and incorporate updates.
• Collaborate with mechanical/electrical design, quality, and production teams to solve high-complexity testing challenges.
• Drive continuous improvement efforts to increase throughput and reduce cost to meet targets.
• Write automation software in Python to interact with flight hardware, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, electrical engineering, or physics.
• 1+ years of design and/or hands-on manufacturing experience (internships, collegiate engineering projects such as Formula SAE, Baja SAE, or professional industry experience will be considered).
• Deep working knowledge of satellite electrical architecture, factory checkouts, and HASS operations.
• Ability to investigate failed electrical hardware to determine root cause via telemetry and hardware investigations.
• Engineering intuition and critical thinking.
• Comfortable working under ambiguous requirements with minimal oversight.
• Ability to travel to other SpaceX sites, up to 10%.
• Willingness to work extended hours and/or weekends.
• Physical requirements: hands-on, on feet for extended periods (up to 4 hours), ability to climb ladders, stoop, bend, crawl, and work in tight spaces.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Ability and willingness to obtain a Top Secret clearance.
• Master's degree in an engineering discipline.
• Experience with MATLAB, Python, or other programming language.
• Experience with integration and testing of avionics, propulsion, thermal, and/or structural systems.
• Documentation and configuration management experience.
• Experience writing test plans, procedures, and providing go/no-go judgment and rationale.
• Experience in a production environment.

ITAR Requirements

• Applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.