Education: Bachelor's degree
Experience: 5+ years
- Own the design, build, commissioning, and sustained operation of Iron Bird (HIL/HITL) environments for all vehicle configurations - enabling mission simulation, off-nominal testing, and failure injection
- Design and maintain modular Iron Bird configurations with switchable hardware and emulation to enable flexible, subsystem-targeted testing
- Develop, review, and execute right-sized test plans for Iron Bird integration activities, efficiently capturing and reporting learnings, and making recommendations as inputs to design
- Support software release and regression testing through the Iron Bird environment
- Lead component, subsystem, and system-level integration within Iron Bird environments
- Focus on the safety of integration environments, ensuring that potential harm to team members is eliminated by design, with particular attention to high voltage, rotating machinery, and stored energy
- Implement and maintain processes for configuration control of Iron Bird environments including hardware, firmware, and wiring baselines
- Develop and maintain real-time data visualization and monitoring capabilities for Iron Bird operations
- Bachelor degree or higher in Electrical, Mechatronics, Mechanical, Aerospace, Systems Engineering or aviation related technical discipline
- 5+ years experience in developing and operating HIL/HITL/Iron Bird or comparable environments for flight vehicles or complex autonomous systems
- Experience with real-time simulation environments, hardware emulation, closed-loop test configurations, and HIL platforms (dSPACE, NI, Speedgoat, or similar)
- Experience designing and building integration test benches including power distribution, signal routing, harnessing, and mechanical fixturing
- Adept at working safely with high voltage systems, including integration, checkout and test
- Strong test engineering foundation - DAQ setup and operation, sensor selection and installation, fluency in common communication protocols (CAN, Ethernet, Serial), and command line interface (CLI)
- Extremely organized and detail-oriented, excellent verbal and written communication skills (effective for broad audiences)
- A sincere commitment to a positive, inclusive, and collaborative culture
- Eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance in United States, United Kingdom, or Australia
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