Hardware Test and Automation Engineer I
About The Position
As a Hardware Test and Automation Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to build, test, maintain, and develop the automated software and hardware systems that support simulation and test environments for flight systems. The simulation team ensures that flight software and hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions. You will help automate electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches, enabling fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack. This work will help engineering teams iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and support faster delivery of Inversion products. The position is based at the company’s Playa Vista, California headquarters and requires in-office presence.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent technical experience.
- Typically 1+ years of applicable hands-on hardware experience.
- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages, such as Python, Lua, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Proficiency in one or more embedded languages, such as C/C++ or Rust.
- Experience with Linux-based systems.
- Experience handling and integrating unhoused/open-frame custom electronics and prototype hardware.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government Secret/Top Secret security clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with data acquisition and logging.
- Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy stacks, such as ROS 2, Webots, Orocos, or YARP.
- Familiarity with modern DevOps practices.
- Familiarity with time-series databases, such as InfluxDB, QuestDB, or Prometheus.
- Familiarity with message-oriented middleware, such as NATS, Apache Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
- Familiarity with containerization, such as Docker or Docker Compose.
Responsibilities
- Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to optimize resource utilization and allocation.
- Develop automated test scripts to support qualification of flight software and hardware systems.
- Develop device API wrappers for EGSE equipment, such as power supplies and oscilloscopes, for use with automated test scripts.
- Develop emulators for flight hardware to support software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing.
- Integrate electronics hardware for on-demand HIL simulation workflows, including building custom harnesses, performing safe-to-mate procedures, safely powering up components, and troubleshooting hardware interfaces.
- Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources for simulation workflows.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
