Full Description

⚡ Role: Senior Hardware Test Engineer

💼 Industry: Space Resource & Deep Space Missions

🌎 Location: Broomfield, CO (On-site)

🚀 Join a pioneering team building spacecraft systems designed to take humanity beyond Earth orbit. As a Senior Hardware Test Engineer, you’ll design, build, and execute hardware validation systems to ensure spacecraft avionics meet mission requirements. This is a hands-on, mission-critical role where your work directly determines how the spacecraft thinks, reacts and survives in orbit.

⚡ What You’ll Do

• Own box-level validation of in-house designs prior to handoff to the Assembly, Integration & Test (AI&T) team for system integration.
• Ensure full test coverage by collaborating with design engineers - translate requirements into tests, identify gaps, and propose solutions.
• Develop and maintain automated test tools - script test equipment, build racks, or design simple interface boards and fixtures as needed.
• Lead validation efforts for multiple avionics boxes and mentor junior test engineers as the team grows.
• Author test plans, procedures, and reports to ensure traceability and compliance with mission requirements.

⚡ You’ll Bring

• 5+ years of experience in hardware test with demonstrated hands-on experience.
• Strong understanding of fundamental electrical engineering concepts and ability to apply them to practical problems.
• Ability to develop and execute unit-level test plans from scratch, including unit-level thermal vacuum, vibration, and thermal testing.
• Hands-on experience using and scripting standard lab equipment including oscilloscopes, multimeters, power supplies, and function generators.
• Proficiency with Python or an equivalent scripting language for test equipment automation.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to systematically isolate and resolve circuit issues.
• Ability to design simple test fixtures or interface boards, and experience with tools such as LTSpice for simulation prior to fabrication.
• Experience leading technical discussions and design reviews.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documentation and cross-functional collaboration.
• Demonstrated ability to work across disciplines with a diverse group of engineers.

🧠 Technical Environment & Tools

Scripting: Python (including PyVISA)

Simulation: LTSpice, Simetrix

Scientific Computing: Python, Maxima