Antares Nuclear
Senior Test Engineer - Space
$140K–$190K
Los Angeles · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on test engineering experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, or another engineering discipline, or physics.
- Visa sponsorship
- Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Develops and executes tests to verify the performance and reliability of avionics, electrical subsystems, and thermal hardware for space nuclear power systems.
What you'll do
- Develop verification plans and conduct bench, integrated-system, and environmental tests, including TVAC, vibration, shock, and EMI/EMC.
- Build test infrastructure and automated test setups; analyze test data and document results against requirements.
- Coordinate test campaigns and lead root-cause investigations and corrective-action verification.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in electrical, aerospace, mechanical, or another engineering discipline, or physics.
- 5+ years of hands-on test engineering experience, including testing avionics, embedded electronics, or electrical subsystems.
- Experience developing test procedures, building instrumented setups, executing tests, and analyzing results; environmental or thermal testing experience.
- Experience with electrical test equipment and Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, or similar tools for test automation or data analysis.
Nice to have
- Experience qualifying spaceflight avionics or electrical hardware across multiple environmental test disciplines.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing, power systems, command and telemetry interfaces, or thermal management hardware.
Pay
$140K – $190K USD base salary
Tools
Python, LabVIEW, MATLAB, TVAC, EMI/EMC, CAN, Ethernet, SPI
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