Development Test Engineer (Portal)

The role

You will build development systems to ensure hardware performs reliably from prototypes through operations. You will own development test including hardware-in-the-loop testbeds, RF testbeds, and customer integration milestones.

What you will do

• Lead integrated test development from concept through operations.
• Own the path to certification for EMI/EMC and other applicable standards.
• Design hardware, wiring, and electrical systems to support electrical and RF testing.
• Create device and subsystem simulators for hardware-in-the-loop and integrate testbeds into CI/CD pipeline.
• Own test maintainability and reliability across the lifecycle.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, or related field
• Hands-on experience in Linux-based environment
• Familiarity with basic computer networking
• Hands-on experience with electrical test equipment such as power supplies, DC loads, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and spectrum analyzers

Nice to have

• Experience root-causing issues in integrated electronics (mixed-signal, digital, RF-adjacent systems)
• Hands-on EMC test and troubleshooting experience, such as near-field probes, radiated emissions testing
• Familiarity with MIL-STD-461 EMI/EMC requirements and MIL-STD-810 environmental test methods, including vibration, shock, and thermal testing
• Experience building RF test setups for communications systems, including over-the-air and conducted testing, channel emulation, and modem or link-level performance characterization
• Experience building hardware-in-the-loop testbeds and device simulators, and running them in automated CI environments
• Experience designing test racks and harnessing

About the company

Northwood is a modern space infrastructure company building a global network of phased array and parabolic ground stations. They design, build, and deploy scalable systems for satellite missions.