Senior Manufacturing Test Engineer, Planet

• 6+ years of experience in PCBA testing or manufacturing electrical test development and sustainment
• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical, Computer, Aerospace or similar engineering discipline
• Ability to read and interpret PCBA schematics and use them to understand functionality and troubleshoot hardware
• Experience with JTAG/boundary scan, bed-of-nail testers, and functional tests
• Experience developing and documenting operating procedures and guides
• Experience troubleshooting hardware/software issues and identifying root causes
• Experience with measurement hardware and test equipment such as DMMs, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, analog and digital I/O, data acquisition systems, switch matrices, relay banks, and signal conditioning
• Experience programming in Python, especially functional tests of hardware
• Experience managing multiple Linux systems in a test environment
• Experience with DVCS such as git or mercurial

Desirable

• The Manufacturing Test Engineering Team is responsible for creating and maintaining the tests and infrastructure for our satellite manufacturing operations
• The hardware test engineers on our team tackle projects large and small to design and build software and hardware to automate functional & integration testing, instrument calibration, and qualification testing for both production and design validation
• As a member of the Manufacturing Test Engineering team, you will collaborate with design engineers to develop board-level tests and be responsible for designing and developing the test fixtures, test hardware, and test software
• This will involve working with a broad variety of disciplines, including our top-notch design, qualification, and manufacturing teams
• Support manufacturing operations with response to test station issues
• Maintain and improve existing manufacturing test stations
• Drive the strategy and approach to PCBA test for manufacturing
• Oversee test software deployment and provisioning
• Update and manage existing test pass/fail requirements
• Continuous improvement of test software and hardware to ensure high reliability and scalability of test systems
• Troubleshoot station failures and debug PCBA non-conformances through all stages of test, drive root cause analysis, and recommend corrective actions

• Application Deadline: September 1, 2026 by 11:59p / 23:59 CET (Central European Time)