Development Test Engineer (Prism)

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 for modem test.

What you will do

• Lead integrated test development from concept through operations
• Run qualification and hardware-in-the-loop (HITL) campaigns
• 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
• Design production test setups and execute low quantity production tests
• 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
• Experience building RF test setups for communications systems
• 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 bringing the benefits of space to the masses through advanced communications technology. They design, build, and rapidly deploy scalable systems that power the next generation of space missions.