Electronics Test Engineer

northwoodspace • Los Angeles, CA

3d

About The Position

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company focused on connecting space and Earth. The world runs on space. Space will run on Northwood. Our global ground network ensures that missions ranging from national security, to global connectivity, to disaster response can unlock their full potential and operate every day without fail.
Northwood is looking for an Electronics Test Engineer to build the test systems that ensure our hardware performs reliably from early prototypes through high-rate production. You’ll own test development end-to-end: defining strategies, designing fixtures and harnessing, building automation frameworks, and delivering scalable test infrastructure for both development and manufacturing. This is a highly hands-on role that sits at the intersection of electronics, software, and systems integration — ideal for someone who enjoys turning ambiguous problems into robust, repeatable test capabilities that help ship world-class systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or related field
• Strong programming abilities (Python, C++, Rust), and comfort developing in a Linux-based environment
• Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment such as power supplies, DC loads, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and network analyzers

Nice To Haves

• Experience root-causing issues in integrated electronics (mixed-signal, digital, RF-adjacent systems)
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-810 test methods, including vibration, shock, and thermal testing
• Experience designing test racks / ATE systems (PXI, USB/LXI instrumentation, custom interfaces) and scaling them into production
• Experience writing reusable test software patterns (hardware abstraction layers, driver libraries, test sequencing frameworks)
• Comfort working at the boundary between HW + SW: firmware bring-up, control interfaces (I2C/SPI/UART), fault injection, telemetry capture

Responsibilities

• Lead integrated test development from concept through production, including test strategy, requirements, and execution plans
• Design hardware, wiring, and electrical systems to support electrical and RF testing for both production and development needs (fixtures, harnesses, interfaces, rack integration)
• Develop modular and reusable test automation software, including frameworks, drivers, and tooling in Linux environments using Python / Rust / C++
• Own test maintainability and reliability across the lifecycle — defining calibration, upkeep, debugging, and continuous improvement of test assets
• Create device and subsystem simulators for hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) and automated integration testing
• Support environmental and qualification testing (thermal, vibration, shock), including defining instrumentation and test procedures where needed

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees