Systems Test Engineer

Do you want to help a small company make a BIG difference in space? Do you take ownership of your job and responsibility for your actions? Then come work for Red Canyon and help us continue our mission of helping humankind reach the stars!

Red Canyon Software is looking for a passionate Systems Test Engineer with 4+ years of experience to assist with an aerospace telecommunications program get to launch!

Contract position lasting 9-12 months initially, with extension possible.

Location: Broomfield, CO

Duties:

• Provide unit and system level Environmental (mechanical and thermal) Testing support for functional, acceptance, and qualification testing of space flight hardware
• Perform/Supervise all Environmental (mechanical and thermal) Testing
• Monitor vibration variables (accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells, etc) and thermal vacuum chamber variables during testing
• Installation, routing, and troubleshooting of accelerometers, load cells and strain gauges, as well as heaters and thermocouples onto space flight hardware and test equipment
• Handle space flight hardware in accordance with procedures
• Maintain best test procedures for each team
• Report directly to the Technical Manager

Required Skills:

• Ability to run and operate basic computer programs
• Understanding of using Electronic Volt meters, Accelerometers, performing Modal, Sine Sweep, Random and Shock Testing & the ability of reading technical drawings
• Strong Mechanical Aptitude and knowledge of different types of Hand Tools and Torque wrenches
• Ability to work in shifts
• Excited to navigate cross-culturally in an international environment
• Good communication skills, team spirit and sense of human relationships 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum of 4 years of relevant professional work experience.
• Experience in a testing environment and working with test equipment
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings, standards and technical requirements
• Demonstrated familiarity with data acquisition systems, data analysis and data processing
• Strong safety mindset and experience, including hands-on experience planning and conducting hazardous or critical operations 

$70,000 - $120,000 a year

Red Canyon Engineering and Software: "Exploring Other Planets, Improving our Own"

Red Canyon contracts with NASA, NOAA, NREL, JPL, and DOD, in addition to customers such as Lockheed Martin Space, Raytheon, Sierra Nevada Corporation, a.i. solutions, Walt Disney Imagineering, SAIC, Ball Aerospace, SpaceX, Honeywell, KBRwyle, Maxar, Blue Origin, and Moog. We specialize in building spacecraft, developing renewable energy technologies to help make our planet a better world and cutting edge research and development. Our disciplines include systems engineering, mechanical design, structural analysis, real time flight and ground software, simulation software, user interface software, and mission management software. We help our contractors with the full life cycle of product development from requirements to test and delivery.

Some of the programs we have previously or currently worked on include: Human Lander System, Artemis I-II, WorldView Legion V, Perseverance, InSight Dream Chaser, Psyche, Mars 98, Odyssey 01, Stardust, Genesis and Deep Impact, Mars Phoenix, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Orion, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, GOES-R, OSIRIS-REx, Maven, JUNO, Grail, and the MarsFlight and LunarSIM Simulation. We also work on classified programs.

Red Canyon's home office is located in scenic Denver, Colorado, and our regional office is in historic downtown Titusville, Florida. We are a small company that maintains a flat organization to decrease our overhead and costs to our customers. Our number one focus is to solve some of the most complicated engineering problems humankind is facing.

We have a fun and talented team of engineers and we are committed to our engineers continued success and development. Included in our employment package are immediate HUBZone bonus, health benefits, profit sharing, referral bonuses, and a generous 401(K) retirement plan.

Red Canyon Software, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Red Canyon Software, Inc does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.