Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer I

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 Principal Manufacturing Test Engineer I to our team. If you are great at what you do, 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) in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, or Manufacturing Engineering.
A minimum of 9 years of experience within electronic manufacturing.
Demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of Flying Probe test plans, procedures, processes
Applied experience in test optimization for manufacturing environments.
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

Test architecture design and development including scripting, test executives, hardware, and measurement abstraction layers.
Programming or scripting experience (Python, MATLAB, C/C++, etc.).
Proficiency with statistics and metrology.
Understanding of RF and mixed-signal hardware (e.g. amplifiers, filters, ADCs/DACs, antennas).
Proficiency with Flying Probe concepts, equipment, test deployment.

Responsibilities

Analysis, and implementation, execution of engineering test plans and procedures.
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.