CesiumAstro

Space Technology

PrincipalManufacturingTestEngineer

$175–250k ~AI est. Austin, Texas, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer at CesiumAstro. Skills: Manufacturing Test Engineering, Test Automation, Hardware Testing. Analyze engineering test plans. Implement engineering test plans”

Industry & Context.

Space Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

U. S. citizen, Permanent resident, Conditional resident, Asylee, Refugee

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Bachelor of Science in Engineering, 9+ years experience in electronic manufacturing, Experience in a production environment, Experience writing test plans, Experience writing test procedures, Provide go/no-go judgment, Provide rationale for judgment

Nice to Have

Test architecture design and development, Scripting experience, Test executives experience, Hardware abstraction layers experience, Measurement abstraction layers experience, Proficiency with statistics, Proficiency with metrology, Understanding of RF hardware, Understanding of mixed-signal hardware, Proficiency with Flying Probe concepts, Proficiency with Flying Probe equipment, Proficiency with Flying Probe test deployment

What You'll Do.

Analyze engineering test plans

Implement engineering test plans

Execute engineering test plans

Analyze engineering test procedures

Implement engineering test procedures

Execute engineering test procedures

Lead test requirements development

Map requirements to test architectures

Map requirements to test procedures

Implement test procedures

Manage equipment purchase decisions

Evaluate non-conformances

Create actionable items

Create system improvements

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Multi-disciplinary teams; Engineering teams

Communication Scope

Written communication; Verbal communication

Full Job Description

## Description Please Note: To conform with the United States Government Space Technology Export Regulations, the applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., conditional resident, asylee or refugee (protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. We are looking to add a Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer I to our team. If you are great at what you do, enjoy working in a startup environment, and are passionate about developing leading-edge manufacturing processes for high-reliability, high-volume satellites, we would like to hear from you.  In this position, you are responsible for the analysis, and implementation, execution of engineering test plans and procedures. The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of hardware and software knowledge with proficiencies in test equipment, test architectures, and automation. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to address company-wide hardware test needs.  Engineers on this team must have working knowledge of overall schematics, operations, manufacturing, testing. Core day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with engineering teams to lead and develop test requirements, mapping requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures, implementing test plans and procedures, and logging and presenting results to key stakeholders. Additiona

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