Electrical Test Engineer

Array Labs•Palo Alto, CA 94301, US• Full Time

Posted 4 months ago• Electrical

Compensation

$150,000–$300,000/year

Job Description

At Array Labs, we are building the world’s most advanced radar imaging satellites to produce an accurate, continuously updated 3D map of the Earth, providing governments and commercial organizations with critical insights into the physical world.

We design and build our satellites end-to-end, from on-orbit hardware to ground software and data processing, achieving system performance not possible with conventional satellite systems.

As an Electrical Test Engineer, you will develop the hardware, procedures, and automated test infrastructure used to validate Array’s radar payloads and satellite electronics. Your work will include designing test fixtures and harnesses, creating FPGA- and software-driven test interfaces, developing board- and system-level test plans, and executing environmental and functional testing across a range of operating conditions. You will collaborate closely with electrical, RF, antenna, mechanical, and manufacturing engineers to diagnose issues, validate performance, and ensure flight readiness. The test systems you build will directly affect hardware reliability, calibration stability, and overall system performance on orbit.

As part of our quickly growing engineering team, you will play a critical role in the design of the world’s most advanced radar satellite constellation—one that will significantly improve humanity’s ability to rapidly and comprehensively understand our changing planet.

Responsibilities:

Develop test solutions for in-house developed avionics hardware products which will fly to space

Write automation software to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation systems

Bring up and debug new subsystems and testbeds with responsible engineers

Analyze test data and provide recommendations for improvements

Participate in design reviews and provide input on testability

Maintain test equipment and facilities

Improving our testing capabilities by finding ways to catch bugs before they manifest in production and prevent them from happening again

Basic Qualifications:

Proficient working in the lab with oscilloscopes, DMMs, power supplies, and logic analyzers

Proficiency with programming and automation/scripting languages or ability to quickly learn them (i.e. Python, C++, SQL, MATLAB) and navigating Linux terminals and file systems

Familiarity with design tools for schematic capture

Strong technical documentation skills, including report writing and test result documentation and storage

Familiarity with software defined radios

Familiarity working with and debugging complex systems (transceivers, SerDes, FPGAs, power management, etc…)

Preferred Skills and Experience:

Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans

Board rework experience, specifically surface-mount soldering & hot-air rework

Experience operating in a contamination- and ESD-sensitive environments

Embedded software expertise, bare-metal (no-OS), RTOS-based, and Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) libraries for ARM-based microcontrollers or SoCs

Experience with system verification and validation, experience in root-cause test failures to ensure issues are understood and develop and implement mitigations as part of a process of continuous improvement

Bring-up and test of RF, power, and electronics subassemblies

Basic knowledge of RF system architecture and impairments or hands-on experience working with RF circuits and RF test equipment

Experience in space systems and environmental testing such as vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC

Understanding of sources of measurement error and how to implement appropriate mitigation strategies

ITAR Requirements:

To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) you must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Interview Process

We will conduct interviews via Zoom; the typical process takes around 2-4 weeks to complete from start to finish.

Hiring and Compensation Strategy

Our hiring and compensation strategy is simple:

1) find uncommonly good people

2) pay them uncommonly well

You can anticipate competitive pay, with high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.

Why you should join Array Labs

Array Labs is launching a constellation of satellites to create the first high-resolution, real-time, three-dimensional model of Earth. Our next-generation satellite technology will offer image quality 60x greater than traditional techniques, profoundly expanding humanity’s ability to understand and respond to events on a global scale.

In forging an affordable, accessible, accurate representation of Earth, our work has the potential to transform the face of dozens of fields, including autonomy, telecommunications, disaster relief, gaming, climate science, defense and construction.