About the Team: 

The Factory Test team is responsible for hardware testing in our Long Beach facilities. We use our breadth of experience and collaborative engineering approach to support everything from very large structural tests to precise valve actuation. To that end, we design, build, and operate all test assets in Long Beach from initial concept to test execution. If you enjoy working on a multi-disciplinary team with a broad mandate and want to put hands on hardware, then this is the team for you. As a part of the Data and Control System (DACS) group, this role will focus on the electrical hardware and automation supporting test operations across our rocket factory.

What you’ll do: 

[Hardware focus]

• Design advanced control and data acquisition systems for various test stands, including panel layouts, power and load analysis, fabrication drawings, and instrumentation lists
• Solve a wide range of technical challenges, across broad ranges of timeframe, complexity, cost, and long-term impact
• Support test operations and perform related improvements to existing test stands

[Software Focus] 

• Create, modify, and optimize software that will be used to test and launch Terran R
• Gain hands on experience working with control hardware
• Support test operations and perform related improvements to existing test stands

Example projects:

• Design and build data acquisition cabinets and harnessing for a test stand.
• Select, integrate, and configure instrumentation on a test stand. 
• Design custom PCBs for reading sensors, operating valves, or controlling actuators on various test stands.
• Checkout and tune control systems for hydraulic actuators that will test Terran R components.

Skills/Competencies we’re looking for:

Candidates should have hardware or software skills, but are not required to have both.

• Current undergraduate or graduate student earning degree electrical, computer, software, aerospace, or mechanical engineering, computer science, or related field.
• Solid electrical fundamentals.
• Basic knowledge of common instrumentation, pressure transducers, thermocouples, RTD, flow meters, accelerometers, strain gauges, load cells.
• Basic knowledge of data acquisition hardware and control systems.
• Experience with software development processes including source control, bug tracking, and design documentation.
• Experience in C/C++ and/or Python.

We believe varied perspectives & backgrounds strengthen our team. Prior experience in aerospace is not required.