Principal Environmental Test Engineer I

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Job Title: Principal Environmental Test Engineer I

Location: Austin, TX

Zip Code: 78738

Start Date: Right Away

Job Type: Direct Hire

Pay Rate: $125,000 - $150,000/salary DoE

Keywords: #PrincipalTestEngineer #EngineeringJobs

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Create hardware test procedures, ensure test readiness, unblock issues that arise during test campaigns, etc. in support of our environmental test resources.

* Serve as the technical subject matter expert for environmental test - primary point of support for environmental test equipment and processes and maintain responsibility over test execution for spacecraft hardware.

* Develop standard operating procedures for environmental test technicians.

* Establish and increase the efficiency of environmental test processes to maximize output, limit burden, and enable products to rapidly transition from engineering development to production.

* Identify improvement opportunities and execute initiatives to maintain safe operations, ensure product quality, reduce lead time/labor hours, etc. through environmental test.

* Identify, implement, and qualify environmental test equipment and processes in support of high reliability and throughput production.

* Troubleshoot and identify ultimate root cause of issues in environmental test processes (hardware defects, test equipment anomalies, software problems, etc.), and implement permanent corrective actions.

* Enable production autonomy understanding requirements, simplifying work processes, and automating actions.

* Develop test equipment automation to improve efficiency of environmental test processes and maximize throughput.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline and a minimum of 9 years related experience.

* Experience in a hardware test environment for the Aerospace industry.

*.Experience operating/maintaining thermal chambers, TVAC chambers, and/or vibration shakers.

* Experience with test instrumentation (i.e. thermocouples, accelerometers, pressure transducers, etc.)

* Demonstrated ability to scale production rate capability.

* Experience performing RTCA DO-160 aerospace environmental qualification campaigns for humidity, waterproofness, icing, sand and dust, salt fog, temperature and altitude, acceleration, operational shock and crash safety, vibration, and fluids susceptibility.

* Demonstrated experience with hardware automation using Python, C++, or similar.

EOE/F/M/Disability/Veterans