Senior Test and Automation Engineer, Inversion
$137-193k
Office located in Playa Vista, CA
Re-entry vehicles for space transportation
Open for applications
Re-entry vehicles for space transportation
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$137-193k
Office located in Playa Vista, CA
21-100 employees
Company mission
To turn space into a transportation layer for Earth.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience in testing and automation of software and hardware systems
- Proficiency in one or more scripting languages (Python, Lua, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
- Proficiency in one or more embedded languages (C/C++, Rust, etc.)
- Experience with Linux-based systems
- To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State
Desirable
- Proficiency in the integration and testing of mission- and safety-critical electronics
- Experience with modern DevOps practices
- Experience with async and multithreaded architectures
- Experience with data acquisition and logging
- Experience with robotics middleware and autonomy stacks (ROS 2, Webots, Orocos, YARP, etc.)
- Familiarity with time-series databases (InfluxDB, QuestDB, Prometheus, etc.)
- Familiarity with message-oriented middleware (NATS, Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Docker Compose, etc.)
What the job involves
- As a Test and Automation Engineer at Inversion, you will work as part of the simulation team to build, test, maintain, and develop the automated software and hardware systems that support the simulation and test environments for our flight systems
- The simulation team is responsible for ensuring that flight software and flight hardware can be continuously integrated and tested under realistic flight conditions
- You will play a key role in the automation of electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test benches that will enable fast, repeatable development and deployment workflows across the engineering stack
- Your work will empower Inversion’s engineering teams to iterate rapidly throughout the development life cycle and will strengthen Inversion’s ability to put our products into the hands of our customers with unprecedented speed and agility
- Automate provisioning, deployment, execution, operation, and logging tasks to optimize resource utilization and allocation
- Develop automated test scripts to support qualification efforts for our flight software and hardware systems
- Develop device API wrappers for EGSE equipment (e.g.: to control power supplies, oscilloscopes, etc., via automated test scripts)
- Develop emulators for flight hardware to support software-in-the-loop (SIL) and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing
- Contribute to the design and development of a simulation system capable of automatically provisioning and deploying resources to support simulation workflows
Our take
According to Inversion, in order for humanity to continue to grow within low-earth orbit and beyond, it will be essential that we can return cargo and resources from space. This is why the company is developing low-cost, high-cadence re-entry vehicles to help make space a "transportation layer for Earth".
The company stands out from traditional space companies simply because all its customers reside on the ground. Because Inversion delivers value on Earth itself, it is able to tap into already existing markets - making for a larger impact than many of its peers.
This potential for high impact has not gone unnoticed by investors, and Inversion has raised plentiful funding. It will utilize this to build its autonomous spacecraft which will ultimately make it cost-effective to deliver to the planet’s toughest spots from space. The company is currently in the design phase, with the first flight planned for 2026.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$44m
SERIES A
Sep 2024
$71m
GRANT
Total funding: $125.2m
Company HQ
Old Torrance, Torrance, CA
Leadership
Justin Fiaschetti
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Propulsion Engineer for Relativity Space, worked in Raptor GSE Engineering at SpaceX and interned in Mechanical Engineering at GE Aviation. Also founded Fiaschetti Woodworking.
Austin Briggs
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously a Propulsion Development Engineer at ABL Space Systems, Director of the Boston University Rocket Propulsion Group and a Propulsion and Armament Engineer at Physical Sciences.
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