Senior Test Engineer

About Tiberius Aerospace

Tiberius Aerospace is a cutting-edge Aerospace and Defense company committed to delivering innovative, secure, and compliant solutions for our customers. We specialize in mission-critical technology services for government and private sector customers, ensuring excellence in aerospace systems design, performance, and compliance. To serve our nations with Strength, Honor, and Purpose - forging the systems that defend freedom and shape the future of defense.

Location Orange County, California

Employment Type Full-time

Department Engineering

Reporting to Senior Director

Compensation Salary target $125K to $175K, commensurate with experience, plus equity

Eligibility U.S. citizenship required; must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. government security clearance

Tiberius is seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to lead the planning, execution, and improvement of physical testing across advanced aerospace and defense systems.

This is a hands-on engineering test role focused on electrical systems, mechanical systems, electromechanical assemblies, integrated aerospace hardware, and mission-critical components
. The Senior Test Engineer will own test planning, test setup, instrumentation, execution, data capture, failure analysis, and reporting.

The ideal candidate will come from an Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Systems Engineering, robotics, propulsion, defense, automotive, energy, or complex hardware background
. They will have experience testing real physical systems, not just writing software test scripts.

This role is best suited to someone who is comfortable around hardware, understands how complex systems fail, can build disciplined test plans, and can work directly with engineering teams to improve reliability, performance, and readiness

$125,000 - $175,000 a year

• Develop and execute test plans for complex electrical, mechanical, and integrated aerospace systems.
• Own the full test lifecycle, including planning, setup, execution, data collection, analysis, reporting, and corrective action.
• Design and support test setups, fixtures, instrumentation plans, and data acquisition approaches.
• Perform functional, environmental, structural, vibration, thermal, electrical, endurance, qualification, and system-level testing where applicable.
• Support integration testing across mechanical, electrical, aerospace, manufacturing, and systems engineering teams.
• Identify, document, and troubleshoot hardware issues, performance gaps, and failure modes.
• Work with design engineering teams to understand requirements and define practical verification methods.
• Support test readiness reviews, safety reviews, range testing, and formal verification activities.
• Analyse test data and provide clear technical recommendations to engineering and leadership.
• Maintain disciplined documentation of test procedures, results, anomalies, corrective actions, and lessons learned.
• Improve test processes, test coverage, and engineering quality standards as the company scales.
• Support fast-moving program milestones while maintaining technical rigour and safety standards.

• Develop test procedures for hardware, electromechanical systems, mechanical assemblies, electrical systems, and integrated aerospace platforms.
• Define instrumentation requirements, measurement methods, sensor placement, and data collection plans.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop, system integration, and field testing where applicable.
• Troubleshoot electrical, mechanical, structural, thermal, and integration issues during test campaigns.
• Conduct root cause analysis and support corrective action planning.
• Validate system performance against engineering…