Principal Integration & Test Engineer

K2 Space•Los Angeles, CA

15h•$175,000 - $200,000

About The Position

As a Principal Integration & Test Engineer, you will help hone K2’s approach to subscale and full vehicle production, qualification testing, and operation. Your work will span most technical disciplines at the company and will require building consensus from disparate stakeholders. You will be asked to help mentors others while serving as a critical driver for on-time delivery and mitigating mission risk. Our goal is to develop a fully autonomous constellation and that starts on the ground. You’ll be the driver of constellation-level control to realize this goal.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, computer, or other relevant engineering discipline
8+ years of experience in an integration/test/automation engineering role
5+ years of experience testing and troubleshooting spacecraft and their related components and systems, including subsystem checkouts and system acceptance testing
Experience with environmental testing, such as thermal vacuum or random vibration
Experience working in a clean room and with ESD-sensitive equipment
Hands-on experience using electrical test equipment (PSU, Oscilloscope, DMM, etc.)
Hands-on experience with HITL/HWIL or Flatsat software verification testbeds
Excellent conflict resolution and negotiation skills

Nice To Haves

Proficient in Python and/or Rust
Experience with Linux systems
Experience managing contractual interfaces (e.g. customer, launch vehicle)

Responsibilities

Develop company-wide standards for vehicle test (manual and automated) used to confirm spacecraft hardware and software flightworthiness
Operate spacecraft (interpret telemetry, send commands) during system tests at the factory, test facilities, launch sites, and during pre-launch operations
Act as a test conductor (and sometimes POC) for environmental test campaigns
Mentor more junior members of the team
Interface with customers to scope testing performed on their payloads, based on expected functions and failure modes of interest
Manage relationships with launch vehicle providers, including contractual deliverables such as interface control documents and environmental test plan justifications
Lead high-visibility (proto)qualification campaigns for development and flight hardware
Assess risks associated with different integration and test approaches, justify test reductions and optimize vehicle build/test flows for at-rate production