Firefly Aerospace

Instrumentation & Controls Engineer II

Firefly Aerospace

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Briggs • Texas • United States

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Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • Interact and coordinate with interdisciplinary teams to determine testing requirements, procedures, and operations for functional testing of spacecraft systems.
  • Ideate, design, and iterate on ground support equipment and test setups for environmental and electrical tests.
  • Diagnose and solve complex electrical problems stemming from new and novel test and instrumentation methodologies.
  • Assist in test execution, and data review / validation for functional test setups.
  • Provide well-documented feedback to AI&T teams based on findings from test results, and suggest corrective actions.
  • Own and develop documentation for Flatsat / Racksat designs, enabling high throughput testing on electrical systems for spacecraft.
  • Work with operations team to ensure compliance with all regulatory and safety requirements, proper and timely build of equipment, and cost reduction in design.
  • Generate instrumentation and control system drawing packages for projects. These drawings include Control and I/O diagrams, instrument and control cable schedules, instrument loop diagrams, junction box wiring diagrams, control panel layout and wiring diagrams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering, aerospace engineering, or similar disciplines.
  • 3-5 years of experience in integration and/or testing of RF or process control systems.
  • Strong experience with multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, and other common electrical lab equipment or testing tools.
  • Effective communication and planning skills; strong desire for an ability and desire to work with interdisciplinary teams.
  • Spacecraft or launch vehicle test and validation experience
  • Experience programming programmable logic controllers, setting up human machine interfaces, motion controllers, signal conditioners, or data acquisition systems.
  • Working knowledge of common electrical sensors (thermocouples, RTDs, strain gauges, encoders, etc)
  • Basic ability to write and simulate automated testing scripts in LabVIEW or python.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
electrical engineeringaerospace engineeringintegration testingtesting of RF systemstesting of process control systemsprogramming of programmable logic controllersautomated testing scriptsLabVIEWPythoncommon electrical sensors
Soft Skills
effective communicationplanning skillsinterdisciplinary teamworkproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Electrical engineeringBachelor's degree in aerospace engineering