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What this role is
This role verifies and operates spacecraft deployment and actuation systems through integration testing, bringing up mechanism electronics and validating flight procedures in a flatsat environment. It suits an engineer with hands-on spacecraft systems experience who can troubleshoot across mechanical, electrical, and firmware domains and execute time-critical operational procedures.
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What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, mechanical, aerospace or related engineering
- 3+ years hands-on spacecraft integration and test or flight hardware operations
- Electronics bring-up and mechanism actuation control experience
- Electrical troubleshooting using laboratory instrumentation
- Ability to read electrical schematics, wiring diagrams and ICDs
- Experience with automated test procedures and scripting
- Connector verification and electrical interface testing
Nice to have
- Direct spacecraft mechanisms or flatsat environment experience
- Experience commanding and monitoring deployment or actuation events
- Motor drive and actuator control systems knowledge (brushed DC, brushless DC, stepper motors, encoders, closed-loop positioning)
- Spacecraft commissioning and deployment operations experience
- Anomaly investigation and root-cause analysis support
- Spaceflight hardware development familiarity
- Embedded C/C++ exposure