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# Avionics Test Engineer

- **Company:** Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
- **Location:** Hawthorne, United States
- **Salary:** $105,000.0 - $122,500.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Code Coverage, Hardware Design, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Information Technology
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/10a3bb5d-1be3-400f-96f2-5ce2ffeab645

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science or physics
 * 1+ years of experience with hardware development or electronics test engineering via professional experience, internships, research and/or outside the classroom projects
 * 1+ years of python programming experience

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

 * Experience with test equipment and measurement techniques to verify and validate product requirements
 * Understanding of electrical schematics and electronics manufacturing to analyze and improve test coverage
 * Understanding of metrology, sources of measurement error, and uncertainty analysis
 * Experience developing object oriented software
 * Experience analyzing circuits and developing functional test plans
 * Understanding and experience in environmental testing such as vibration, shock, thermal, burn-in, and TVAC

## Description

* Develop test solutions for in-house developed avionics hardware products that will fly to space
 * Write automation software in Python to interact with units under test, test equipment, instrumentation, and production documentation systems
 * Work closely with and consistently provide feedback to responsible design engineers, manufacturing engineers, and test lab teams to drive design or infrastructure improvements to increase product reliability and yield
 * Root-cause test failures to ensure issues are understood and develop and implement mitigations as part of a process of continuous improvement


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