Senior MAIT Electrical and Test Engineer

Job description

Here at The Exploration Company, we are building spacecrafts for humanity. We are developing, producing, and operating Nyx, a modular and reusable space orbital vehicle that can eventually be refueled in orbit, and which carries cargo - and potentially humans in the longer run. We want you as a talented Senior MAIT Electrical and Test Engineer to help us in our mission by taking technical ownership of the electrical test equipment and automated functional tests required to verify our spacecraft, engineering models and test beds, to ensure that our mission will succeed and our system will work in space! Key Responsibilities In your role as a Senior MAIT Electrical and Test Engineer, your role will include the following responsibilities: Take technical ownership of electrical test equipment and functional-test capability for flight hardware, engineering models and test beds, from early definition through delivery, use and maintenance Establish and maintain a practical development and readiness plan so that test equipment and software are available for early engineering-model testing and subsequent flight-hardware testing Define and assess electrical test-equipment and functional-test needs, making requirements, interfaces, safety constraints, risks and dependencies visible and driving their resolution Translate system and subsystem requirements into complete, traceable functional-test strategies, procedures, sequences and objective pass/fail criteria Lead the electrical design, integration, build, troubleshooting and maintenance of test equipment and its software, including power, signal, communication and measurement interfaces Develop and review automated functional-test software, data acquisition and test sequences in LabVIEW and/or VeriStand, with clear interlocks, limit checks, safe-stop behaviour and maintainable test records Define and review test-equipment architecture, instrumentation, cabling, schematics, interface definitions, configuration and verification evidence Plan and support test readiness reviews, ensuring that hardware, test equipment, software, procedures, safety controls and acceptance criteria are fit for use before testing begins Support and perform unit-, subsystem- and system-level electrical and functional tests on engineering and flight hardware, including hands-on test preparation and execution Lead technical investigation of tes…