Vast
Avionics System Test Engineer
$121K–$183K
Long Beach, California, United States · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of post-bachelor’s experience working with and developing hardware test systems.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other hard science.
About the job
Develops and validates automated hardware-in-the-loop test systems for avionics used in satellites and human-rated space stations.
What you'll do
- Design, build, commission, and validate avionics system test assets and system-level test cases.
- Troubleshoot test systems, lead design reviews, and coordinate test equipment procurement and integration.
- Document test systems, support operator handover, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, or other hard science.
- Experience building and maintaining hardware test systems and operating Linux systems, including command-line tools.
- Experience with power supplies, electronic loads, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and digital multimeters; familiarity with electrical wiring, grounding, and safety.
- Expertise in root cause analysis and problem-solving in avionics or complex hardware environments; fault-tolerant and safety-critical software design.
Nice to have
- Experience with satellite communications or telemetry, requirement-driven test plans, automated test systems, or hardware-in-the-loop environments.
- Familiarity with C++ or python, embedded systems, space-system testing standards, Git, Cmake, GNU tools, CI/CD, or DAQ systems.
Pay
$121,100 - $156,800 USD base salary (Avionics System Test Engineer II); $141,300 - $183,260 USD base salary (Senior Avionics System Test Engineer); $121,000 — $183,260 USD base salary (California)
Tools
Linux, C++, python, Git, Cmake, GNU tools, JIRA, Bitbucket
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