Electrical Engineer

Overview

Sierra Lobo offers customers a full range of professional and technical capabilities, including Test and Evaluation, Systems Engineering, and Advanced Technologies. We also develop products and processes related to Cryogenic Fluid and Thermal Management Systems, Densified Propellant Management Systems, and Prototype Extreme Pressure and Temperature Systems. Our customers include the Department of Defense (DoD), the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army, Missile Defense Agency (MDA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

This position will be located at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in the Propulsion Test Department.

Full‑time employees of Sierra Lobo are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits plan which includes Paid Time Off (PTO), major medical, dental, vision, life insurance, an employer‑matching 401(k) savings plan, and other supplemental plans. Relocation to Las Cruces, NM may also be available.

EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran

Duties will include instrumentation and control system design, build‑up, checkout, validation, active support of propulsion test operations, and post‑test data analysis. Other duties include preventative maintenance tasks, troubleshooting, and repair of systems and equipment. Duties may also include design, build, and operation of propulsion standard video systems, as well as high‑speed, high‑definition, and IR video systems.

BS degree from an ABET‑accredited electrical engineering program with 0 to 3 years of related experience, or an ABET‑accredited aerospace engineering program with a strong emphasis on electrical/electronic systems and 0 to 3 years of related electrical engineering experience. Desired experience includes at least two of the following: design, calibration, and application of instrumentation; data systems and data acquisition systems; data analysis and uncertainty analysis;

design of hardwire and computerized control systems, including development of associated control system software; experience configuring, programming, and using OPTO‑22, Allen Bradley, or other PLC‑type HMI control systems.