What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Test Engineer position at Varstaff?
Job Description
We are a diverse team of collaborators, doers, and problem-solvers who are relentlessly committed to a culture of safety. This position will directly impact the history of space exploration and will require your commitment and detailed attention towards safe and repeatable space flight. Join us in lowering the cost of access to space and enabling our client's vision of millions of people living and working in space to benefit Earth.
As part of a small, hardworking and accomplished team of specialists, you will be responsible for avionics controller hardware architecture for various spaceflight systems. You will share in the team's impact on all aspects of avionics engineering product development; architectural definition and hardware and software development (design and verification). You should be comfortable working in fast-paced and often uncertain environments, contributing to innovative solutions, while demonstrating personal leadership, technical competence, and attention to detail.
You will develop and certify specialized avionic embedded controller test equipment and instrumentation. Plan, develop and execute verification tests for flight qualified avionic embedded controllers; including board-level functional tests and product level acceptance and qualification tests. Collaborate with product development leaders to define and execute tests at the circuit, board, box and integrated subsystem levels; in avionics development labs, environmental test labs, radiation test labs and vendor test labs. You will help support team design reviews including test requirements and plans, procedures, schedules, etc., while working to continuously improve test team processes, procedures and standards.
We are looking for someone to apply their technical expertise, leadership skills, and commitment to quality to positively impact safe human spaceflight. Passion for our mission and vision is required!
Qualifications:
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- Minimum of a B.S. in electrical, computer engineering or related field
- 5 years testing complex electronics using specialized electrical support equipment
- Passion for hands-on problem solving and avionics integration and test
- Ability to work independently on rapid development programs
- Ability to work on site in Kent, Washington
- Highly organized, safety and quality conscious, with excellent technical written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum
Desired:
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- Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field
- 7 years of integrated test experience (aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, racing teams, etc.)
- Experience testing complex electronic systems combining hardware, firmware, and software
- Experience leading the development and testing of real-time embedded systems with a focus on modular and extensible architectures
- Experience developing and testing hardware to MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD,1540, SMC-S-016 and similar environmental standards
- Experience testing safety and mission-critical systems (automotive, aerospace, medical, etc.) aligned with DO-254 or similar standards
- Proficiency with scripting; programming and analysis/modeling tools: Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting; assembly language, C, C ; MATLAB / Simulink / SPICE (or similar)
Desired Skills
Graduate degree in related engineering or technical field
7 years of integrated test experience (aircraft, launch vehicles, spacecraft, racing teams, etc.)
Experience testing complex electronic systems combining hardware, firmware, and software
Experience leading the development and testing of real-time embedded systems with a focus on modular and extensible architectures
Experience developing and testing hardware to MIL-STD-461, MIL-STD,1540, SMC-S-016 and similar environmental standards
Experience testing safety and mission-critical systems (automotive, aerospace, medical, etc.) aligned with DO-254 or similar standards
Proficiency with scripting; programming and analysis/modeling tools: Python, Linux/Windows shell scripting; assembly language, C, C ; MATLAB / Simulink / SPICE (or similar)
