Manufacturing Test Engineer II

CesiumAstro•Austin, TX

About The Position

At CesiumAstro, we are developers and pioneers of out-of-the-box communication systems for satellites, UAVs, launch vehicles, and other space and airborne platforms. We take pride in our dynamic and cross-functional work environment, which allows us to learn, develop, and engage across our organization. If you are looking for hands-on, interactive, and autonomous work, CesiumAstro is the place for you. We are actively seeking passionate, collaborative, energetic, and forward-thinking individuals to join our team. We are looking to add a Manufacturing Test Engineer II to our team. If you enjoy working in a startup environment and are passionate about developing leading-edge manufacturing processes for high-reliability, high-volume satellites, we would like to hear from you. In this position, you are responsible for the analysis, and implementation, execution of engineering test plans and procedures. The ideal candidate possesses a strong combination of hardware and software knowledge with proficiencies in test equipment, test architectures, and automation. The successful candidate will work closely with multi-disciplinary teams to address company-wide hardware test needs. Engineers on this team must have working knowledge of overall schematics, operations, manufacturing, testing. Core day-to-day responsibilities include collaborating with engineering teams to lead and develop test requirements, mapping requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures, implementing test plans and procedures, and logging and presenting results to key stakeholders. Additional responsibilities include lab and equipment management and guiding key equipment purchase decisions. Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create actionable items and system improvements.

Requirements

A Bachelor of Science (BS) with 2+ years of experience in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering.
Demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of test systems.
Applied experience in test optimization for manufacturing environments.
Test architecture design and development including scripting, test executives, hardware, and measurement abstraction layers.
Programming or scripting experience (Python or C#).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated engineering intuition, critical thinking, and comfort with ambiguity.
Experience writing test plans, procedures and providing go/no-go judgment and rationale.
Experience in a production environment.

Nice To Haves

Programming or scripting experience (MATLAB, C/C++, etc.).
Proficiency with statistics and metrology.
Understanding of RF and mixed-signal hardware (e.g. amplifiers, filters, ADCs/DACs, antennas).

Responsibilities

collaborating with engineering teams to lead and develop test requirements
mapping requirements to reusable test architectures and procedures
implementing test plans and procedures
logging and presenting results to key stakeholders
lab and equipment management
guiding key equipment purchase decisions
Evaluate non-conformances to determine root cause and create actionable items and system improvements.