Stratolaunch
- Robot type
- Robotics
- Location
- MojaveCaliforniaUSA
- Job type
- Hardware
- Posted
- Oct 21, 2026
- Salary
- $86,000–$103,800 a year
Avionics Engineer - Payloads
Job description
Stratolaunch accelerates the development of next-generation aerospace and defense technologies through reusable hypersonic flight testing. Our autonomous, air-launched Talon-A vehicles provide access to operationally realistic flight environments at speeds exceeding Mach 5, delivering critical data that helps customers validate system performance and advance technologies toward deployment. Our team brings together expertise in engineering, manufacturing, and flight operations to solve complex challenges and advance capabilities essential to national security.
Stratolaunch is seeking a Level I, II, or Sr-level Avionics or Flight Test Instrumentation Engineer to support the design, build,…
Job responsibilities
- Evaluate experimental payload requirements to determine fit for integration onto a hypersonic test bed.
- Work across many teams and subsystems to define and implement collection and recording of experimental payload data
- Contribute to instrumentation and telemetry (data) system requirements development, design, testing, & operation for customer payloads
- Develop and support instrumentation and telemetry tests
- Make suggestions and recommendations for improvements, including changes to workflow
- Support Talon-A Payload Integration Lead
- Support technical customer reviews and ensure contract deliverables are on time and meet or exceed customer expectations
- Analyze flight data and generate reports for customers
Job requirements
- Experience in instrumentation, telemetry, or network engineering in an operational or regulated test environment.
- Experience with data acquisition systems and dataloggers
- Experience working with government procurement processes
- Experience writing system requirements or ability to effectively elicit requirements from a customer
- Experience with designing test equipment to support both bench and in vehicle testing of electronic assemblies
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Ability to acquire and maintain a DOW security clearance
- Proficiency with at least one programming language, including but not limited to C/C++/C#, Python
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