Amazon Propulsion Test Engineer Team 

United States, Washington, Redmond 

737178942

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 improvement of propulsion flight hardware and its testing. As part of the Propulsion Development Test Team, you will support the design, optimization, and execution of electric propulsion testing for a variety of different propulsion systems and subsystems, including PCBA's, feed systems, thrusters, cathodes, tanks, and integrated propulsion systems.You will work with hardware design owners and subject matter experts to develop and execute testing of hardware in order to inform design updates and failure investigations. This will include test procedure definition, software development, test execution, and data analysis. You will also develop new test capabilities as well as optimize existing systems for both production and development testing by building and optimizing new and existing test systems and techniques.You will also contribute to finding solutions to challenging problems by investigating root causes for hardware failures and assist in the disposition of production and flight non-conformances through investigation testing and data analysis. Additionally, you will utilize the growing amount of development and production data to inform methods of accelerating production acceptance testing without reducing hardware screening.
Key job responsibilities
• Perform development testing of a variety of electric propulsion systems and subsystems in order to inform design updates and root cause investigations
• Design and implement updates to development test hardware and software to improve development test capabilities
• Analyze data from both production and development tests to inform hardware performance trends, requirements, and methods of accelerating production acceptance testing without reducing hardware screening.
• Perform root cause investigations to understand hardware and test failures and assist in the disposition of production and flight hardware non-conformances.
• Work with other engineers to refine test requirements and the methodologies to test against those requirements
A 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, executing, and optimizing test processes
- 3+ years investigating hardware failures or performing root cause analysis

- Experience developing software with Python, LabVIEW, or TestStand
- Experience testing electric or chemical 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)