Mechanical Test Engineer, Deployable Antenna Structures
E-Space
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- Pay
- $140K to $210K
- a year
- Location
- Arlington, TX
- Work style
- On-site
- Job type
- Full time
- Posted
- Oct 22
- 2 days ago
Career path
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About the company
E-Space
Telecommunications · 51 to 200 employees
What you'll do
- Own electrical verification and EGSE for the integrated antenna assembly
- Build and troubleshoot electrical test setups
- Solder test hardware
- Write test software using Labview and Python
- Configure and run data acquisition systems
- Operate spacecraft and instrument surrogates for verification testing
- Provide electrical test support and functional verification during environmental campaigns
What you need
- BS, MS, or PhD in Mechanical or Aerospace Engineering, or equivalent practical engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience testing physical mechanisms or deployable hardware, with clear examples of personally setting up, operating, measuring, and troubleshooting hardware.
- Practical mechanical judgment: able to reason about forces, motion, friction, stiffness, alignment, and the influence of a test fixture on the hardware being measured.
- Experience developing test procedures and using force, torque, motion, or optical measurement instrumentation to obtain repeatable data.
- Ability to investigate an anomaly systematically and explain what the evidence supports, what remains uncertain, and what to test next.
- Understanding that a ground test under gravity does not automatically reproduce flight deployment conditions.
- Deployment testing of antennas, solar arrays, booms, or other flexible flight structures.
- Design or operation of gravity-offload rigs, including characterization of friction and support compliance.
- Experience with deployable booms (rollable, telescoping, hinged, or coilable lattice) and membrane or other tensioned deployable hardware.
- Photogrammetry or other optical measurement of deployed shape and motion.
- Experience with mechanism friction and lubrication across temperature ranges, thermal-vacuum deployment tests, or deployment model-test correlation.
- This is a fast-paced, high-impact environment - flexibility to occasionally work extended hours or weekends during critical periods is expected.
Key skills
Electrical verificationElectrical test setupsLabviewPythonData acquisitionSolder
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We are looking for a hands-on Electrical Test Engineer to own electrical verification and electrical ground support equipment (EGSE) for E-Space’s integrated antenna assembly. You will build and troubleshoot electrical test setups, solder test hardware, write test software (Labview, Python), configure and run data acquisition (DAQ) systems, and operate spacecraft and instrument surrogates for verification testing.
This is an electrical engineering role with substantial bench and test facility work. You will own the electrical test chain from the hardware connection through acquisition, automation, and recorded evidence. During environmental campaigns, you will work alongside the engineer responsible for mechanical testing, providing electrical test support and functional verification.
On-site in Arlington, Texas. Hands-on bench work and test facility presence are required. Some travel between sites expected.