Senior Development Test Engineer
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What you need
- Bachelor’s degree in mechanical, aerospace, or electrical engineering
- 4+ yrs hands-on test hardware, DAQ systems, or test rigs experience
- Direct spaceflight hardware development, acceptance, and qualification testing
- Experience leading test campaigns end to end with test documentation
- Strong knowledge of instrumentation and data acquisition fundamentals
What you'll do
- Lead design, build, and operation of test infrastructure for spaceflight hardware
- Own test strategy and execution from development through deployment testing
- Architect data acquisition systems and fabricate test stands and fixtures
- Define procedures and test campaigns for prototype to flight hardware qualification
- Mentor engineers and shape testing processes as BRL scales
They say the best deployable is no deployable, but we believe large deployable mechanisms are the future for large infrastructure in space.
At Beyond Reach Labs, we are designing and building the largest deployable structures ever flown to space. As an engineering-driven organization, you will be at the forefront of the company’s key technology development. To make this possible, every mechanism, structure, and actuator we develop needs to be proven out on the ground before it ever sees flight.
As a Senior Development Test Engineer at BRL, you will lead the design, build, and operation of the test infrastructure that proves out our hardware. You will own test strategy and execution from subassembly-level development testing through full-scale deployment testing of flight hardware. Your work will span the full development cycle: architecting data acquisition systems, leading the fabrication of test stands and fixtures, and defining the procedures and test campaigns that take a mechanism from a prototype to qualified and acceptance tested spaceflight hardware. You will also mentor other engineers and help shape how BRL tests as we scale.
Key Responsibilities:
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Test Design and Fabrication:
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Test Operations and Data Review:
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Procedures and Qualification:
Basic Qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
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4+ years of experience in a hands-on engineering role designing, fabricating, or operating test hardware, DAQ systems, or test rigs.
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Direct experience testing spaceflight hardware through development, acceptance, and qualification testing.
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Experience leading test campaigns end to end, including authoring acceptance and qualification test documentation.
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Strong working knowledge of instrumentation and data acquisition fundamentals (sensors, signal conditioning, sampling).
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Demonstrated ability to take technical ownership and lead in small teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Master’s or PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
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Experience serving as test director or test lead for qualification campaigns of flight hardware.
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Direct prior experience designing, fabricating, and operating test rigs and stands for mechanisms, structural test articles, motors, or actuators, including DAQ hardware/software and common test instrumentation.
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Direct prior experience with large, lightweight deployable structure testing (gravity offload, deployment dynamics, or similar test methods).
Additional Requirements:
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Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as necessary to support critical project milestones.
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Must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for authorization under U.S. export regulations.
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About Beyond Reach Labs
At Beyond Reach Labs we are building solar panels for Space that grow from the size of a dining table to a football field in orbit. Mitch and Pele met 13 years ago as freshmen at UPenn studying mechanical engineering. Mitch recently got his PhD at Carnegie Mellon working with NASA on kilometer-scale deployable structures, and Pele spent seven years at SpaceX leading Dragon parachute engineering, safely returning astronauts from space. The collective satellites today use around 20MW, roughly the output of a datacenter on earth, but by 2030 there is a demand for over 10GW, a 500x increase, largely driven by orbital datacenters, space stations, and lunar outposts. If you want more power, your only option is to launch larger solar panels, which quickly become fragile or impractically expensive. As a result, power constraints already determine whether missions or industries can exist at all. But at Beyond Reach Labs we have introduced a new class of deployable solar panels giving satellites 10x more usable power without increasing launch mass or volume. This works because our patented deployable design changes geometry in space, allowing for us to reach 10x longer while remaining rigid.
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