Instrumentation & Controls Engineer II

Firefly Aerospace

Instrumentation/Controls Engineer designing control systems for Firefly Aerospace launch vehicles. Collaborating with teams for testing and validating spacecraft systems in Texas.

Posted 4/13/2026full-timeBriggs • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off

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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