Test Engineer Supporting Satellite Payload Testing

Description

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Are you ready for your next challenge?

The Space Division at Leidos has an opening for a Test Engineer to work in our Huntsville , AL satellite production facility . This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience helping the team to develop test stands for verification and validation of payload performance .

THE CHALLENGE (primary responsibilities)

This position will be responsible for gathering requirements, defining test parameters, test stand design, hardware and instrumentation specification, and setup and operation of test stands . The candidate is required to perform test planning, test execution, scheduling, and resource management . The candidate will work with both ground support equipment and the deliverable payload to perform the required test and gather test data for acceptance testing .

They will create test plans , procedures, and support engineering review boards . The candidate will work in an office and cleanroom environment .

WHAT SETS YOU APART (basic qualifications)

• Requires Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, or closely related field and minimum of 4 years of related experience in hardware testing , data gathering, and instrumentation . Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.

• Candidate must have experience in HW/SW interfaces and data gathering using Python .

• Candidate should be familiar with and capable of writing APIs.

• Candidate should have demonstrated experience integrating ground support hardware into test environment to display and record test data.

• Candidate must have experience with data gathering using multiple types of sensors, typically recording voltage and/or current.

• Candidate should have experience with cabling, instrumentation, basic electrical knowledge of DC circuits, and troubleshooting skills.

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to work well with cross-functional teams, design engineers, analysts, manufacturing, project management and customer representatives

• Experience working in a cleanroom environment

• Excellent verbal/written communication skills, and ability to work with multiple interfaces

• Understanding and basic troubleshooting skills of test instrumentation.

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.