Senior Constellation AI&T Engineer

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Define integration and test architectures for constellation concepts, including test flow, facility and GSE concepts, acceptance campaign structure, and throughput modeling at quantities from tens to hundreds of…
• Drive design-for-test and design-for-integration into early architecture trades across payload and bus subsystems (power, comm, avionics, GN&C, propulsion, thermal, structures).
• Develop AI&T concepts for rate production, including test automation, streamlined acceptance campaigns, reduced-touch environmental strategies, and first-pass-yield and rework assumptions.
• Define launch-cadence-driven constraints on the architecture: dispenser and stack integration, encapsulation flow, launch site processing throughput, and deployment concepts.
• Author technical content for proposals, white papers, and customer engagements, including AI&T approach, test flow narratives, staffing and facility basis of estimate, and associated risk.
• Serve as the AI&T technical authority in architecture reviews, concept gates, and independent reviews; capture integration and test risks and mitigation plans.
• Partner with program AI&T organizations to ground concepts in real, demonstrated capability and to hand off mature architectures at award.

Job requirements

• B.S. in engineering or equivalent technical field; 10+ years of related experience in the design, development, and flight of aerospace systems.
• 6+ years of experience in spacecraft or aerospace systems assembly, integration and test.
• Has taken at least one aerospace system through assembly, integration, and test to launch or deployment, including hands-on time on the integration floor and/or at the launch site.
• Demonstrated ability to scale test and verification strategy to program needs — from tens of units under traditional aerospace practice (SMC-S-016 / MIL-STD-1540) to high-rate builds using protoflight, HALT/HASS, and…
• Experience establishing and driving AI&T metrics (e.g., first-pass yield, test cycle time, rework rates) and defining automated checkout and screening/acceptance sampling strategies.
• Strong systems engineering fundamentals, including requirements verification and the full "Systems Engineering V."
• Proven ability to build and defend cost, schedule, and throughput estimates for work that has not been done before.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to influence multidisciplinary teams and brief senior internal and customer stakeholders.