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Albin Engineering Services, Inc. (www.aesi.com) is looking for an Electrical Systems Test Engineer. This will be a 1 year contract role with the potential for conversion. Candidates will be reporting onsite to the San Jose, CA office. As our employee, you would qualify for our full benefit package until becoming a direct employee with our client.
Job Responsibilities:
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop deep understanding of the spacecraft design across all disciplines
- Support integration and testing of flight spacecraft
- Support qualification and acceptance testing of spacecraft subsystems
- Create test plans and procedures to validate spacecraft and subsystem performance
- Assist with flight software testing and validation
- Support on-orbit operations and flight anomaly resolution activities.
- Develop and maintain laboratory facilities for spacecraft testing
- Contribute to interface control documents (ICDs) and interface change notices (ICNs) from outside vendors for acceptance testing requirements
- Participate in non-conformance reports (NCRs), engineering change notices (ECNs), re-do drawings, and redlines during spacecraft build phase
- Contribute to continual process feedback and improvement, in particular for PLM/CM procedures and tools
- This position will occasionally require flexible working hours including nights and weekends to support spacecraft testing and operations.
- Experience integrating and testing spacecraft avionics hardware.
- Experience working with embedded systems.
- Experience with embedded software regression testing.
- Experience using laboratory tools such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, network analyzers, and power supplies.
- Experience with test automation and scripting in python
- Experience using basic data analysis to validate system performance and identify anomalies.
- Ability to work independently.
- Excellent technical communications skills
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of spacecraft avionics functions, failure modes, and debugging strategies
- Knowledge of spacecraft operations, flight software qualification, and/or spacecraft GNC (Guidance, Navigation, and Control) a strong plus
- Working knowledge of spacecraft design and integration
- Exposure to configuration management concepts and implementations
- Exposure with model-based systems engineering concepts
- Experience with requirements management, validation, and verification
- Hands-on experience with digital, analog, and mixed signal electronics
- BS in Electrical Engineering
- 5+ years relevant experience
