Terran Orbital is seeking an experienced Sr. Systems Integration Engineer to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the Manager, Systems Integration & Test the Sr. Systems Integration Engineer will work within a multidisciplinary team to build, integrate, and test space vehicles at both the sub-system and system levels.
This role is on our Weekday shift (Monday - Thursday) from 6:00AM - 4:30PM.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Design vehicle assembly process and procedures
- Design and develop tools and hardware to enable vehicle assembly and ensure vehicle testing abilities
- Develop full testing campaigns ensuring vehicle integrity of electronic and mechanical systems
- Vehicle integration build flow and test concept of operations
- Evaluate proposed designs for manufacturability and integration into sub-systems
- Interface with engineers and technicians to advance to larger-scale manufacturing and automation
- Develop and refine manufacturing assembly procedures based on lessons learned to mature status
- Responsible for enabling day-to-day execution of the vehicle integration and test flow
- Manage work orders and drive non-conformances into actionable items and system improvements
- Resolve Electrical and Mechanical issue debugging at the satellite system and sub-system level
- The position will require being hands-on and will require standing for extended periods
Requirements
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
- 5+ years of experience as a test or manufacturing engineer supporting highly integrated cross-disciplinary assembly operations, with hands-on technical experience
- U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain DoD security clearance
Additional Differentiators
- Master's degree in Aerospace, Mechanical, Manufacturing, or Electrical Engineering or related technical discipline
- Experience with build integration and testing of propulsion, thermal, electrical, and structural systems, including, but not limited to, vibration, shock, thermal, vacuum, and radiation testing
- Experience with electrical debugging of PCB Assemblies, including the ability to read electrical schematics
- Documentation and configuration management experience
- Experience writing test plans and procedures and providing go/no-go judgment
- Experience in a production environment within the aerospace industry
- Experience working in a laboratory setting, particularly a cleanroom with ESD precautions
- The ability to read and write basic code in any primary programming language
- Experience using Linux-based operating systems