Amazon Propulsion Test Engineer 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

562738933

Export Control Requirement: Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.The Propulsion Group is seeking a Test Engineer to support the development and continued optimization of propulsion flight hardware test capabilities to support this constellation.You will work within the Kuiper Propulsion Team in the development, operation, and optimization of electric propulsion test infrastructure. You will also get to develop and improve testing capabilities for a variety of different propulsion subsystems, including PCBA's, feed systems, thrusters, cathodes, tanks, and integrated propulsion systems.You will develop and design new test capabilities as well as improve existing test frameworks in order to ensure the needed test coverage is achieved at increasing production rates. This will include hardware automation and test software optimization of existing systems, buildup of additional systems for parallel testing, and performing and utilizing development testing to inform methods of accelerating production testing and improving screening. You will also contribute to finding solutions to challenging problems by investigating root causes for hardware failures as well as trading process methodologies, schedule constraints, and test coverage in order to enable increased production rates to be obtained.
Key job responsibilities
- Define and implement solutions to optimize and automate electric propulsion system testing
- Develop test automation, data acquisition, and data analysis hardware and software to improve test efficiency and cycle times
- Perform root cause investigations to understand hardware and test failures and disposition flight hardware non-conformances
- Work with hardware subsystem owners to ensure test coverage is maintained across multiple development and flight hardware design update cycles
- Perform development testing and data analysis to inform methods of accelerating existing testing without reducing hardware screening capabilities
- Work with other engineers to refine test requirements and the methodologies to test against those requirements
- Train operators in the execution of developed testing and processesA day in the life

- Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Physics, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years developing automation, data acquisition, or control software
- 3+ years experience with electrical test equipment and data acquisition systems
- 3+ years of developing or optimizing manufacturing or test processes
- 3+ years investigating hardware failures or performing root cause analysis

- Experience developing software with Python, LabVIEW, or TestStand
- Experience testing electric propulsion systems or their subsystems
- Experience developing and operating pressurized fluid systems in aerospace environments
- Experience developing test processes in a production environment
- Experience working with space flight hardware
- Experience with Highly Accelerated Stress Screening (HASS)