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# Test Engineer

- **Company:** American Turbines
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Reduction, Python (Programming Language), Scripting, Computer Network Operations, Hardware Testing
- **Published:** November 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerbuilder.com/job-details/test-engineer-san-francisco-ca--6bb896d8-4c98-42bb-99fa-e2c34fb7cf0e

## About the Role

Testing, Network Operations Center, Power Generation, Testing, Plumbing, Instrumentation, Calibration, Procedure Development, Scripting (Scripting Languages), Hardware Quality Assurance, Experience testing hardware : engines, rocket engines, turbochargers, compressors, high-pressure systems, or comparable. You've instrumented and run test articles, built fixtures and plumbing with your own hands, and you know most test problems are measurement problems.

Solid instrumentation and DAQ fundamentals: signal conditioning, calibration, sampling rates that match the physics. Scripting for data reduction, Python or similar. Familiarity with gas fuel systems and high-pressure plumbing is a plus, so is time on a student rocketry, FSAE, or engine test team if that's where your hours are.

## Description

The Test Engineer will build and run the stand that takes our first engine from cold spin to full power. You'll work with the Lead Test Engineer on everything the stand needs: structure, plumbing, fuel gas train, cooling, protection systems, and the instrumentation that tells us what the machine is actually doing.

You'll own real scope from day one: sensor selection and installation, thermocouples, pressure transducers, accelerometers, DAQ configuration and calibration, and the scripts that turn raw channels into plots the design team acts on the same day. You'll write procedures, run pre-test checklists, sit console during hot tests, and turn the stand around between builds.